[mdhb]

I don’t know what you mean here by advanced? If you mean the sheer amount of fuckery they have to do in order to make it work with JS perhaps you have a point.

If you mean expressiveness or consistent or soundness then no, it’s actually very bad compared to almost anything else and I think the longer it goes on the more it starts to feel like a house of cards.

The upside I guess is that whenever Safari decides to get their shit together Web Assembly is well placed to get us out of the scenario where we are forced to use JS and as an extension Typescript at all for most things and actually good language choices with reliable type systems like Dart, Kotlin and C# all become viable options.

There is no way I’d choose JavaScript over those other options in the majority of scenarios unless I was forced to.

[wiseowise]

> The upside I guess is that whenever Safari decides to get their shit together Web Assembly is well placed to get us out of the scenario where we are forced to use JS and as an extension Typescript at all for most things and actually good language choices with reliable type systems like Dart, Kotlin and C# all become viable options.

Out of those three only Dart has nice DX story compared to JS world.