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Vinit Jogani

Yep that's a fair point. The sad truth is that the dominance of JS on the web is hard to replace given how much tooling we now have built around it.

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Eckehard

Initially I did not like JS at all. There are still somethings I hate the designers for (most of all the overwhelming use of "this" in class definitions). But I was amazed that we had less trouble than expexted in our projects. You can have real trouble with the sloppy type conversions. But we had this kind of tricky errors too in languages with static typing.

You will need some more checks and a bit different style with JS, but the loose typing can also be very elegant. Overall it is not as bad as expected. Definively better than Visual Basic. It is more like an ugly, but very handy friend.

Initially I thought, TS is a must-have. After I got a bit used to JS I'm not that sure.