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by kervantas 1705 days ago
People would rather write a compiler than write js. Ridiculous.
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Er, yes? Compilers are brilliant fun.
It just shows how terrible JS as a language itself.
That doesn’t strike me as being ridiculous at all
- Shared language for server and client has its advantages.

- F# has some significant advantages over JavaScript (and TypeScript).