It's a quirky dialect of JavaScript, which has very little to offer. There is less typing, but that certainly wasn't JavaScript's biggest issue. With languages

It's a quirky dialect of JavaScript, which has very little to offer. There is less typing, but that certainly wasn't JavaScript's biggest issue. With languages like TypeScript, or Dart, you also reduce the amount of typing work, but that's just a side-effect of the good tooling these languages have to offer. You can auto-complete everything. It makes a lot more sense to boost productivity via structure and tooling, because that's what really helps with scaling.