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Before you start talking about what to put on your resume, I'd look at what job descriptions are asking for. I haven't seen many asking for ClojureScript or TypeScript yet.

TypeScript (and to a lesser extent CoffeeScript) seem fine to me, but ClojureScript looks very different to JS. I'd always advise someone to learn JS first, then your compiled language of choice.

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Which is why I said marginalization. Knowing Javascript is important, but I believe a savvy team will jump on one these languages to turbo charge their productivity.

Possibly, but you can argue the opposite. I've seen a bit of commercial TypeScript and it's been horrific and to me just matched the anything but Web/JS approach I was expecting.

I'd also worry that the TS community itself would risk marginalization, end up as a small niche ghetto, with most of the interesting stuff going on in ES7+.

Hard to be sure but I wouldn't write off JS just yet, people have been doing it for years as new/better (flash/silverlight/compile to JS) technologies have promised to make it seem soooo 90s.

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