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Re:TypeScript Seals My Penchant for JavaScript by danneu on Friday September 30, 2016 @09:39AM (#12612336)
I used Clojure for three years before realizing that all of the dynamically typed languages you listed still have the same hard problems: making large code changes and reasoning about existing code. I also realized that in the real world, technical superiority is overrated, and the difference between these languages is overestimated.

Javascript is ubiquitous, runs in the browser + server, everyone I meet in the wild has to know it, and it has static typing options. It's not easy to shove those aspects under the rug to justify another language. It takes something else, mostly depending on just who I'm working with and then on what we're building.

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