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I was struck by how reactionary some of the responses to this comment are. Many people seemed to feel obliged to firmly question your preferences. Kind of odd, I don't normally notice that as much here on HN.

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I expected it because over the years any Dart or Microsoft positive statements I've made have received pushback. Some people can't let go what Microsoft did 20 years ago and assume they are still evil (with GitHub Copilot for example.) Others who are JavaScript programmers can't let go that a Google exec said at the outset that Dart was meant to replace JavaScript. They have fought it over the years.

I almost felt like I was trolling by combining the two, but I'm actually using Dart and Blazor to see how they can work together because Blazor Wasm doesn't do DOM manipulation and Dart does it in such a easy to use fashion that the marriage feels natural to me.

I try not to attack back and have a bit of a sense of humor about it, but it does feel like suppression of thought on HN

Well personally I wasn't questioning the preference itself, I was curious about the purpose of the preference since I've seen people avoid JS/TS both because they don't like it and because it struggles to accomplish certain things. I was simply curious which it was (if either).

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