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by dclowd9901 1861 days ago
Having gone the other way (starting with JS and moving into languages like Objective C), I actually disagree. Having a solid foundation in software writing helped me when I started to learn about the somewhat obtuse abstract concepts that tend to be coupled with learning strict typing.

Then, when learning Flow and Typescript, where I'm expected to have a meta understanding of typing itself, I was ready to go.