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by tjholowaychuk 2310 days ago
Facebook pays for this kind of stuff? Why not spend the time incorporating a decent language instead of trying to fix the fragmented hot mess that is js
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They've already done exactly that in other quarters of Facebook towers: ReasonML
The same reason they still use PHP via Hack.

Throwing all the baby out with the bath water is something engineers consistently overvalue in business when there are other middleground trade-offs to choose from.

I suppose it depends, but throwing out node and migrating everything to Go was one of the better choices we made at Segment, before the platform grew too large.
Old habits die hard. Not many people are interested in learning new languages