This is the question I was going to ask. It seems like porting many of the poor decisions that were made in creating the web to native desktop.
Apart from Javascript, of course. But that particular "bad decision" is getting modified with every version into something more acceptable ("now with classes!").
I guess the endpoint is that React + Javascript (+ Redux) becomes the defacto language for developing UIs in, and what implements that abstraction layer is immaterial. React-native all the things!
True, but it definitely seems like they're only fixing the low-hanging fruit. They're never going to fix the insane type system.
I like that there's "==" and "===", because that's exactly how I think. It fits my use case of "is this the same value as that?" or "is this really equal to that?" exactly.
I like that types are fluid, flexible and never get in my way.
But there's a religious war here that I think got won by the static type side, so I'm not going there again ;)