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> ES6 isn't statically typed. It might be better for you , it is not for me.

Perhaps you should just look into using TypeScript? It's basically ES6 with static typing.

It's a pretty weak static type system, and it retains javascript's other warts (e.g. scoping). And if I'm going to have to do a separate compilation step anyway then I might as well use a nicer language.

TypeScript treats "let" correctly, while transpiling it down to ES3/5 that have no concept of "let".

or even better Dartlang is't optionally typed - for both sides of the fence

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