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by black-alert 2697 days ago
you mean Python and Ruby like languages are unmaintainable and therefore deprecated? I rarely have a problem with maintainability in JS because of types, but I do have problems with poor constructs, poor readability, dependency issues and so on. It's a typical illusion of TS proponents that code becomes magically maintainable.

JS developers moving to TS should at least do a few weeks of Assembly and C programming to first understand the origin of types. I've spoken too many front-end devs who don't have a clue what a type actually is and at the same time promote TS. It's a godsend we don't need them in scripting languages. Use tooling to catch issues, that's the future, TS is just a whim.