Typescript takes away a significant amount of the pain for me; the only hold up after that was getting an environment set up to compile it. Deno supporting typescript without any configuration is incredible.
TypeScript is mostly additive, so all the footguns are still there if you aren't careful to avoid them. It also doesn't do anything about the extremely meager standard library that is inferior to what other mainstream PLs had 20+ years ago.
int_19h|2 years ago