Sure, as my prof once noted, "Why, with the assembler you just need to type more!"

You must have had one of those progressive professors who did not consider assemblers "a waste of a valuable scientific computing instrument [...] to do clerical work": http://worrydream.com/dbx/

I love historical anecdotes like this. Goes to show that we should always be questioning our status quo and thinking bigger.

Please write a JavaScript program that will not deploy to your production system if you accidentally pass a string to any function that expects an integer.

So… typescript?

Because it's better.

Simple question, simple answer. Using C is purely an act of risk-aversion, contrarianism, and fashion.