JS moving in the direction of being compiled, statically typed, and adding lots of boilerplate for various reasons. When I started writing JS, it was partially

JS moving in the direction of being compiled, statically typed, and adding lots of boilerplate for various reasons. When I started writing JS, it was partially to get away from these things in the .NET world. So, to be honest I don't enjoy these changes in isolation, but I understand why they are happening. I like that we're starting to think in a more systematic way about how to organize applications, and I think that bigger codebases and teams probably benefit from using static types. But god, sometimes when you open up these codebases they sometimes hardly look like JS anymore. Not to mention the tooling and build stuff, which still have a lot of maturing to do.