Node vs Python

I'm learning Python for the purpose of find a tool to process data and store datasets in a SQL database for later extraction and analysisI'm not at the point where I understand "data science" - I just need a language to extract data from XML files, TSV files, and databases, and do simple aggregations and joins​NodeJSI feel that if I learn node, i'll pick up a very useful language (javascript) which I can later easily use for front end workIt also appears to be fast, and javascript community is very active, with npm packages for everything.Javascript also has many visualisation packages​PythonThis language definitely seems more common for tasks that process data, however are there any advantages to just using Javascript (a far more common language)? I would rather learn JS if it's capable of doing most of the things that Python can do

Submitted March 17, 2019 at 01:34AM by doormass