RE: Controversial Thought: Python > Javascript
Subjectively, from my own point of view, writing Python is far more enjoyable than writing Javascript. However, looking at the current landscape objectively, it is clear that I am in the minority, or at least the silent majority, while the new blood rallies around JS and looks to shoehorn it into every application imaginable. Their opinions are the only ones that count anyway; the youth is the future, after all, and therefore I feel that knowing how to write Javascript makes my relevance more future-proof in the world of software development than knowing Python.
In general, if there is something I can do in Python rather than Javascript, I will. I write or at least prototype the majority of my personal projects in Python. However, I have considered forcing myself to use Javascript for even these things at least sometimes, since it is clear that it is outpacing Python as the de facto official language for all the things.
Of course I continue with my secret desire for Javascript to fall into obscurity outside the browser (or even completely). (Still though, I can't help but love npm.) I also can't help but know it's not going to happen; at least not the way I would want it to. Python had its reign; Javascript is the future, for now, until something else is... and it's only gonna be something new and exciting; it'll never be Python again.
(And that's tragic! xD)