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		bayesnet 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language To be fair I think the success of JS is in spite of it not working super well
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frollogaston 5 days ago [–]

JS was designed well. Got a lot of things right that others copied later, and also made improvements without breaking compatibility. And the random weird things like [] == 0 don't come up much in actual usage.

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