Its type system is miles better than Python and it has some basic stuff Python doesn't have like block scope. Functional programming is also intentionally kind of a pain in Python with the limited lambdas.

If TypeScript had the awesome python stdlib and the Numpy/ML ecosystem I would use it over Python in a heartbeat.

Typescript is a really nice language even though it sits on a janky runtime. I’d love a subset of typescript that compiles to Go or something like that.

Typescript is ubiquitous in web, and there are some amazing new frameworks that reuse typescript types on the server and client (trpc, tanstack). It's faster (than python), has ergonomic types, and a massive community + npm ecosystem. Bun advances the state of the art for runtime performance (which anthropic just bought and use for Claude code).

TypeScript is great!

Has shortcomings like all languages but it brought a lot of advanced programming language concepts to the masses!

Typescript is a lot nicer than Python in many ways. Especially via Deno, and especially for scripting (imports work like people want!).

There are some things that aren't as good, e.g. Python's arbitrary precision integers are definitely nicer for scripting. And I'd say Python's list comprehension syntax is often quite nice even if it is weirdly irregular.

But overall Deno is a much better choice for ad-hoc scripting than Python.