Re: What about static typing!
Use TypeScript? I know, I know, it's not the same thing as static typing built into the language. All of the static typing solutions I've looked at for JS aren't very good, but I don't think Javascript's design lends itself to static typing. We'd probably be better off with a new scripting language... and then we get to the problem of people not wanting to change.
This is definitely the biggest debate in Web development right now... glad I'm not the one who has to decided where we're going.
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