I love how this all went full circle. You know, just a few years ago, there still was the narrative of how bad JS is. Especially on HN. "Designed in only ten da

I love how this all went full circle. You know, just a few years ago, there still was the narrative of how bad JS is. Especially on HN. "Designed in only ten days", people made fun of it for being such a half-assed language. Stuff like the "Wat" talk, making fun of left-pad, etc. Now it's "JavaScript used to be a little elegant". Fantastic. More seriously: 1. This is typescript. Feel free to use js without it. (EDIT: This is wrong :) 2. This is a relatively easy feature, and there are equivalent features in some other mainstream languages. You don't have to like it, I'm not sure I do, but this feels so dramatic.