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Fernando B 🚀 • Edited

Hey there welcome, the question is a bit hard to answer. What you really asking is like asking why do like oranges vs fish.

Python is a general programming language that excels in several areas due to its easy syntax, but python doesn't really have much use for front end. You can use it for backend with flask or django, but if you're learning javascript it just makes sense to also use javascript on the backend.

MERN, is Mongo Express React Node, from those four Mongo is database backend, Express a node module for server applications, React a ui library, and node is what drives this with javascript.

If you're going for web dev I would probably focus on MERN, and then later on at some point pick up python as it really is a nice language to have in your skill set.