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by bryanlarsen 3705 days ago
To be fair, the OP is basically an intro to his post on how to "fix" javascript.[1] This post basically says we should create a new Javascript that is the same as the old Javascript without all the bad parts.

Which throws away the two biggest strengths of Javascript: it works everywhere, and is compatible with tons of existing code.

1: https://medium.com/javascript-non-grata/javascript-the-next-...

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> create a new Javascript that is the same as the old JavaScript > without all the bad parts

Google tried this with Dart and failed.