Ah, yes, C, well known for having rich data structures, object orientation, higher-order functions, etc. Even if you weren't conflating rather different languages, JavaScript is inherently interesting for being the only language supported by web browsers and thus being one click away from billions of people.

> Python, because ‘the python way’ is just a bunch of weird idioms for apparently no reason other than making it odd to read for beginners.

That's a pretty flame-y way to say you didn't choose to learn the reasoning behind something. Python has a lot of history developing language features in public – note that https://www.python.org/dev/peps/ starts in 2000 — so it's not like this is hard.