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Re:Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer ... by pier25 on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:39PM (#18384198)
> and it had to be implemented quickly (hence the lack of typechecker and other advanced features)

Since then there has been more than enough time to implement optional static types.

In fact, the EcmaScript 4 proposal had those, before it was trashed in 2007 or so and the TC39 started EcmaScript 5 from scratch.

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Re:Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer ... by tabtab on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:24PM (#18384596)
JavaScript is fine for the job of hooking light-duty events to HTML, but people try to write entire GUI/graphics engines in it. It's the wrong tool for that job, just as you don't write an OS in TCL. The whole Web UI "standards" issue needs a big overhaul in my opinion, but Web UI's is probably off topic. (I've ranted about it in other topics.)
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