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by bnchrch 1043 days ago
Typescript, by a large and deserved margin.
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It's not sound :(. Type systems should be bomb proof or get out of the way.
Typescript's unsoundness isn't a good thing, but it is way down the list of type-unsafe things inherent in the Boschian nightmare that is frontend development.

Compile-to-JS languages add a big impedance mismatch when you inevitably need to use JS libs. Typescript's JS + types philosophy helps with this issue (it still sucks though).

Should have added other than Typescript :)
Then I would vote Go (best stdlib in the business), then Java.