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I like TypeScript but it doesn't come close to solving every problem. You still have floating-point only numerics, bizarre array semantics, crappy Unicode suppo

I like TypeScript but it doesn't come close to solving every problem. You still have floating-point only numerics, bizarre array semantics, crappy Unicode support, nigh-unusable threading, perf optimization is hard, lots more.

ClayFerguson 10y ago
If you took a poll of developers about what the problems with JavaScript really are, the things you mentioned wouldn't even make it onto the list. Imagine how much of a disaster the web would be today if JavaScript allowed threading all these years. All the script-kiddies who have never written one line of back-end code in their lives suddenly having to grapple with concurrency? Oh my god what a disaster.