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JS will be far more versatile if you learn it well. It's in so many dang things.
The biggest annoyances about JS are some things that exist in Python, so you'll already be familiar with loosely typed systems and mutatable objects (dictionaries/hashes or what ever Python calls 'em).
Other than that, it's mostly that there are a million ways to get the same things done, even something like, "define a class with static and instance-bound functions and properties". Older JS techniques only use scope and the prototype and look like a gross hack. Modern JS has actual class syntax.
It all stems from the constant enhancement of the language. Many, many nice features like proper class syntax and first class modules (no more third party module syntax) came in ES2015, and a sadly small number of front end devs to this day really know them well.
Many web dev tutorials use older style techniques just because they've been around ages. If you learn how the new features are mostly syntax sugar on old styles, you'll be a JS pro in no time.
This is a great answer. Bumping it as someone who got forced to move into Node/JS around 8 years ago and came to love it (after the ES2015 changes :). It's primarily what I work in and I teach community classes on it these days.
I've been dabbling in Go lately for lower level server side stuff and, while I don't dislike it, it's a big shift in thinking. There are a lot of niceties to the Go ecosystem.
I see. Do you perhaps have a tutorial that does use those new features?
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There's actually a save button for those kinds of things btw.