Ask HN: Python or JavaScript for Learning Artificial Intelligence?

It&#x27;s no contest: you want to learn Python.<p>Other commenters (or their links) haven&#x27;t mentioned Theano, which is excellent for deep learning, so I&#x27;ll contribute that to the discussion.

I would say Python.<p>I am no expert in neither Python nor JS. But, the AI community really seems to be obsessed with Python and moreover many specific libraries [1] are available in Python that concentrates on AI alone.<p>On the contrary, AI in JS is mainly being used in games and like.<p>[1] - <a href="https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonForArtificialIntelligence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.python.org&#x2F;moin&#x2F;PythonForArtificialIntelligence</a>

This shouldn&#x27;t even be a question. Python has, just off the top of my head:<p>1. Numpy<p>2. Scipy<p>3. Pandas<p>4. Orange<p>5. Gensim<p>6. Scikit-Learn<p>7. NLTK<p>What does JavaScript have that even comes close?

I would go for Python. It provides more flexible approach for coding and the AI community seems to be revolving more around Python.

Python by far in my opinion.

Definitely python. I think it is the best language to learn AI, it is simple and has so much great libraries and learning resources!