[louthy]

Maybe he doesn’t care if people stop reading and he’d prefer to use the language he’s most comfortable with? It’s his blog after all, not yours.

Additionally, perhaps he’s making the point that a language with an expressive type system makes solving problems like this trivial.

[sp0ck]

If you don't care about readers reading it or not then what is the point to publish an article ?

[louthy]

I read it. Probably lots of other people did too. Presumably the people who don’t think computer science begins and ends with JavaScript

[recursive]

Why does there have to be a point? If there is one, why do you need to understand it?