> Of course you could apply strict conventions to make it maintainable, but at that point you might as well be in a statically typed language working at full sp

> Of course you could apply strict conventions to make it maintainable, but at that point you might as well be in a statically typed language working at full speed in an ide. Not really. We do the strict conventions thing and have had a lot of success with it. Being able to run in a browser is a huge, huge advantage. If I had a nice statically typed language that gave me that advantage as well as javascript does, I'd probably switch to it, because by inclination I prefer the compiler to do more work for me, but there's no way I want to leave behind having my code work for anything with a browser and f5 to see my code in action.