From a functional programming point of view, the fact it is javascript is almost the opposite of everything you tend to appreciate about your functional languag

From a functional programming point of view, the fact it is javascript is almost the opposite of everything you tend to appreciate about your functional language of choice. So that simply counts it out for some people. However you an still do functional programming in js, and making use of typescript and ramda is a pretty good base for doing it. (well, this is what I do anyways). I find this a much easier approach when blending all kinds of javascript libraries together than using a cross compiler .