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I'm curious, what do you love about JavaScript?

Probably that he knows it and doesn’t know Swift.

What kind of a reason is this? "Ignorance is a bliss."

The point was probably that someone with a good knowledge of one language and little or know knowledge of another favors the one they already know.

There are plenty of people who are quite happy with what they have, and they see no reason to change. Then there are people (thankfully) who are never satisfied and who keep progress rolling.

> Then there are people (thankfully) who are never satisfied and who keep progress rolling.

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.”

I know many languages, including Swift and Ruby, and I've actually started to prefer modern Javascript. I really enjoy writing ES7 JavaScript with Flow or TypeScript, and everything else in the ecosystem (babel, webpack, yarn, etc.)

I will admit that Swift is a much better language, but I prefer working with modern JavaScript these days.

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