I don't think that's a particularly good way to judge the problem though. Sure, the JavaScript example might be shorter, but which implementation is safer? Whic

I don't think that's a particularly good way to judge the problem though. Sure, the JavaScript example might be shorter, but which implementation is safer? Which is going to be easier to work with in the future? I'd make the assertion that the JavaScript version will have a lot more edge cases that could have been caught sooner with a more robust type system.