This is a major downside of interpreted languages, coupled with JS's diabolical scoping rules. Interpreted languages by their very nature, only reveal syntactic

This is a major downside of interpreted languages, coupled with JS's diabolical scoping rules. Interpreted languages by their very nature, only reveal syntactic errors to you once you run them. I would like to see server side code written in compiled, statically typed languages, such as C/C++ to prevent such errors.