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wilfred@eastpole.nl

Hey all. Getting fed up with Medium.com brought me here. Also, I never seem to be able to handle having my blog on a single platform for longer than a year. Time to change! I am Wilfred. I have been in the industry for more than 20 years, wearing all the hats you can imagine. The last decade I have been mostly working on startups. I like getting things done, and after having done Scala on two projects, it no longer seemed the fastest way to get things done, so I switched to Node. I like the ecosystem, don't necessarily like the language, but I'm okay. My background is in strongly typed languages, but I found switching to Node fairly comfortable. (But then again, we switched to CoffeeScript, in which everything is an expression, which generally makes me feel really happy.) I'm still hoping for a sensible alternative to TypeScript. Dabbled with ReasonML: there is a ton of things I like — but there are also some things I'm not all that fond of.