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by ConAntonakos 3693 days ago
Why the aversion towards JavaScript? It's steadily improving, albeit slowly, with massive support from many players.
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Not in the least, it's dynamically-typed with ecosystem libraries removing APIs by the dozen (upgrade your dependencies? prepare for days of verifying runtime errors of missing functions), and TypeScript is still a second-class citizen even despite the increasing amount of TypeScript-first libraries (like Angular2)...