Frankly, 'var' is fine most of the time. Keep writing small functions and all that. Besides, you have 'let' now. I have much a bigger beef with the type system

Frankly, 'var' is fine most of the time. Keep writing small functions and all that. Besides, you have 'let' now. I have much a bigger beef with the type system (or lack thereof), the array-and-hashes-as-one-datatype stupidity and the lack of a module system.