The author's rant on JS and npm deps has a point but his rant on typescript, flow, and other transpilers completely misses the mark. If JavaScript is an unsafe

The author's rant on JS and npm deps has a point but his rant on typescript, flow, and other transpilers completely misses the mark. If JavaScript is an unsafe language and therefore anything that compiles on top of it is unsafe the same is true of Swift as it compiles to assembly/machine language which is unsafe. If you consider JavaScript some cross platform assembly language then there is no difference between the two ideas. He also rants about using the best language that catches the most errors but then picks Swift as his solution. I have a feeling there's lots of other devs that would not rank Swift at the top of languages that catch the most errors and therefore the author is being hypocritical in ranting that you should always use the best since they're arguably not using the best. The article did make some other interesting points