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> Most of the issues you listed with the language itself are fixed by using either Flow or TypeScript.

Hence the initial comment about putting effort into fixing something fundamentally broken.

Ah true. I guess what I was really getting at was that even though JavaScript has some fundamental missteps, it's not beyond being fixed and definitely not the worst language in existence i.e. that behind the quirks, is a quite nice and powerful language that isn't a waste of effort.

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