[Spivak]

Well and that JS is really fast thanks to V8 and TS has leapfrogged Ruby in terms of developer tooling. Personally I think Ruby is a nicer language and JS has a lot of odd quirks but it became Java. A good natural choice that can be used for any project.

[vinceguidry]

> leapfrogged Ruby in terms of developer tooling

The only thing I would ever want from js is destructuring assignment. There's rightward assignment in ruby now but it's pretty clunky.

> became Java

Best laugh I've had all week.

[const_cast]

Java is both significantly faster than JS and significantly less buggy/footgunny. JS is pretty much just a bad language in my mind. It seems specifically designed to create as many bugs as humanly possible. It's a lot like C++ in that way, but at least C++ is actually performant.