I finally kinda came around to it after a decade of writing JavaScript. It took me a while because I’d spent about a year converting Coffeescript back into Java

I finally kinda came around to it after a decade of writing JavaScript. It took me a while because I’d spent about a year converting Coffeescript back into JavaScript after it fell out of favor at a company I worked at. I told myself I’d never work on another js-transpiled language. I do love strong typing, but what I don’t love is a language that mimics strong typing over a loosely typed system. Every single time I’ve used it, I’ve run into some weird problems. A third party package might not have a types file, or it might have an incorrectly-defined type, etc. It can be extremely frustrating in my experience.