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by thelastidiot 2949 days ago
> Static typing is massively overvalued

Are you serious? If you job involves using a scripting language in the browser, then at least have to decency to look into TypeScript. I converted to TypeScript after having worked on a code base in JavaScript and realized that just adapting one module to TypeScript, the conversion revealed stuff I had no idea it could have possibly slept thru jslint. I am talking major stuff like string to number and non-existent method calls. Ugh.