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Plus JavaScript can run Python and pretty much anything else, thanks to browser optimizations. It often being used in a browser also offers canvas and DOM as powerful and popular rendering options, as opposed to the myriad of display libraries for Python (tk, PyGame, stream, native, etc.)
Python is supremely readable thanks to its lack of competing brace styles, and can be extended (numpy) or transpiled to (and sometimes from) JavaScript, C, and C#, for advanced users. Free ebook for beginners to programming: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 3 How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition
A language is slow to write if it's verbose and/or difficult; Python is the opposite of that. There are fast Python implementations like PyPy and Stackless Python, compilers like Cython and ShedSkin, and translators like Jiphy. The standard implementation, CPython, prefers ease of implementing new features over premature optimization.
Linters are too anal, imo. Even Notepad has line wrapping, for instance, so the few that are longer than 78 characters shouldn't be a problem. As for features, have contracts defined in an issue tracker, just like they are in the functions you write.