We already have that in the form of TypeScript, but both left-pad and core-js were, for lack of better term, non-technical failures.
Only the most recent such case - is-promise - was purely a technical failure.
There's not much than can be done when the sole core maintainer of a popular library lands in a penal colony.
While an improvement Typescript is a far cry from the likes of Ada and doesn't really compare.
> There's not much than can be done when the sole core maintainer of a popular library lands in a penal colony.
Perhaps the solution is to not use Javascript, since it always forces you into an "ecosystem" of "frameworks" at every turn - and they are not cheap! Just another thing to throw on the stack. mb's be damned.
Given their respective popularities perhaps the point of diminishing returns was crossed somewhere?
> Perhaps the solution is to not use Javascript, since it always forces you into an "ecosystem" of "frameworks" at every turn - and they are not cheap! Just another thing to throw on the stack. mb's be damned.
This is becoming outdated information thanks to the likes of Svelte:
and Solid: