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There must be a cost involved in everybody using different languages even though you can use the libraries of any language.

For example, the API between your language and the other language is probably not going to match your languages style. You see it all the time with APIs that seem to be written for java but are in another language.

If the library has to write different APIs for all the different langauges, then that is an additional cost.

Then there is the fact that less people will know a "standard" language, because they will all be using different languages, so they can't contribute back to the libraries that they use so easily. For example, if I am using a scala library and want to change something or commit a bug fix or whatever, I will have to learn scala.

>"Stop liking what I don't like,"

That isn't the argument though. The argument is that people who don't want what you like are forced to do it.

>Listen, some people want a short commute.

This is like the "would you like to help the disabled" line that people selling things on the street say.

>Hell, it's even good for family, which the author seems hung up on. You know what you're not doing while driving home from work for forty five minutes? I would accept an arbitrarily short commute to work. If there were reasonably priced dwellings in the building I work at, I would live there. More time to play with my kid, cook dinner, or whatever else.

I had to live below a family with 3 kids for a year. There was constant running on my ceiling. "thump thump thump" all day and night. Apartments are not really designed for kids. In fact, they aren't really designed for anybody, which is why everybody buys houses where it is possible. I don't feel like I have any privacy here because there are always people very close to me. Most people just shut all their windows and pull the blinds down. Living in a windowless box is not ideal.

>Well, is it sinister to live near work, or isn't it?

I think he is complaining about the fact that you have to move away from where you grew up and that the options available for housing are basically a dorm room.

Why would it do that? Javascript is more appropriate in the early stages of a project. You don't want to go to the trouble of declaring types everywhere only to realize everything has to change. Once you stabilize you can add in typescript, which is the great thing about it.

I like javascript and think a lot of other people do as well so it probably won't go away just because of web assembly. I don't see too many people writing c# in browsers. I worked with c# backend and javascript front-end for 4 years and got sick of having to create classes for no other reason than because c# needed a type and other things like that.