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by jordwalke 3919 days ago
> it's available on pretty much every platform

And now so is OCaml, Elm, PureScript, C++, and anything else that compiles to JS.

> it's a natural fit for web application development, and so on.

Now that other languages are beginning to compile to JS, they are also becoming increasingly natural for web app development.

> there's already a huge supply of developers familiar with it and its ecosystem.

This is definitely true.