Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages

This guy is not competent to talk about what he's talking about.

>"JavaScript is, in my opinion, a working-class language. It’s very forgiving of types (this is one reason I’m not a huge TypeScript fan)."

Being "forgiving of types" is not a good thing. There's a reason most "type-less" languages have added type hints and the like (Python, Typescript, etc) and it's because the job of a programming language is to make it easier for me to tell the CPU what to do. Not having types is detrimental to that.

> There's a reason most "type-less" languages have added type hints and the like (Python, Typescript, etc)

I would like to clarify that even without typing python is a LOT less "forgiving of types" than javascript. It has none of the "One plus object is NaN" shenanigans you run into with javascript.