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Discussion on: Mint - A refreshing programming language for the front-end web

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What language Mint is similar to is irrelevant. If the language is superior to another is also irrelevant. Take for example PHP - it's not superior to any language. It's actually a big pile of crap, yet it became popular.

If you will compete with other languages you need to consider all other pieces of the ecosystem like NPM packages and compatibility with already existing software. TypeScript is very close to JS and it can use existing NPM packages without any effort. With minimal effort they get type information too.

JS is very very popular at the moment, not so sure about Elm and definitely not Crystal or Reason (I had to google these and I have over 20 years of experience and I tend to keep the pace and know what is going on around here).

My point is, that choosing this language over JS or TypeScript for a project seems to be a hard business decision and only a few companies may risk investing in it...