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I'm with you except for wanting type errors. I like ducktyping and in coffeescript -- I know, I'm not cool -- you get the existential operator `?` which makes d

I'm with you except for wanting type errors. I like ducktyping and in coffeescript -- I know, I'm not cool -- you get the existential operator `?` which makes ducktyping really nice. I really think the problem with javascript really boils down to the fact that it's still in beta and will never have the breaking changes necessary to move it to a 1.0 language (i.e . the ECMA committees commitment to not breaking the web). But, it's easy enough to get around that in new projects by using linters that get rid of the bad parts.

naasking 11y ago
> I'm with you except for wanting type errors. Duck typing for methods and such is fine if that's what you're into, but if you're checking for equality, you want type errors, period. Only like equals like. Doesn't matter if your language is statically typed or dynamically typed, equality means something very specific and it's very surprising when those expectations are violated.