[swsieber]

I'd be interested in solving it, but not with Javascript.

I think it's less about engineering costs and more about dislike of javascript. Maybe even specifically javascript tooling and electron.

A big reason people want to standardize on javascript is because it is the runtime of the Web - I can't wait for Web assembly to get even better so we can standardize on something else.

[jtreminio]

Technically the source code in OP is Typescript.

[swsieber]

But technically all javascript is also valid typescript... OTOH you can set a strict mode (I think)