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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by tengbretson on Monday September 12, 2016 @11:58AM (#12480787)
> JavaScript - Dynamically typed, does not scale

What does this even mean? I see the phrase "does not scale" bandied about all the time. In what way is a language supposed to scale? It seems like its just the latest semi-technical hand-wavy way to disparage something.

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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by morenoh149 on Monday September 12, 2016 @12:43PM (#12481235)
I think he means very large projects. > 10k loc. See http://www.pgbovine.net/migrating-legacy-codebase-to-typescr... for example
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