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Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages

(nolanlawson.com)
160 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 20 Oct 24 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
1. from-nibly ◴[20 Oct 24 22:19 UTC] No.41898959[source]▶
> It’s very forgiving of types

I lost you here. JavaScript doesn't work around type issues, no language really can. It just pushes the type issues to a later time.

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2. nickserv ◴[21 Oct 24 09:57 UTC] No.41902443[source]▶
Indeed, and later on in the same sentence:

> this is one reason I’m not a huge TypeScript fan

Sorry but TS is the only thing making the JS ecosystem palatable. So many bugs caught thanks to typing...