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Just Say No to JavaScript
JavaScript gives you too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Just what you’d expect from a programming language that was created in a week.
And given that the browser is the real operating system these days, JavaScript should — and eventually will — go the way of assembly in the minds of developers. Designed by the great Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript has all of the benefits of JavaScript (such as they are) while adding a type system that is expressive and powerful. I love unit testing and test-driven development, and I think we all ought to be writing our code that way, so this argument is compelling.
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