[maxcan]

thanks for the reply.

> The problem with JavaScript is not that it is a dynamically typed prototype based object-oriented language without classes. That is actually JavaScript’s strength.

the above suggests disliking static typing as a premise.

At dox (http://www.usedox.com) our stack is basically haskell/yesod in back typescript/angular up front. sure there are annoying limitations of typescript relative to haskell but compared to any of the AltJSs that we've looked at or used (coffee script, elm, fay, roy, purescript, dart, actual javascript) it has far and away the best combination of safety and ease of integration with javascript libraries.

We love coffee script's syntax but the type safety of TS has become a must-have that we can't live without.

Typescript, once you start adding annotations, does actually combat some of the bigger warts in JS. specifically erroring on wat-ops like 1 + "" vs 1 - "" or [] - "".