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If only typescript was written by facebook or google then people wouldn't hate it.

Flow was written by Facebook, yet TypeScript seems markedly more popular and well-liked. There are some who hate TypeScript because MS, and there are some who hate Flow (and React) because FB. But most of the criticism against TS has, anecdotally, been technical in nature.

Edit: by popular I didn't mean that it's merely used by more people. I've clarified that.

I'm not talking about popularity. I'm talking about indiscriminate hate because it's connected with microsoft. C# has suffered the same stigma since the beginning.

People hate Dart, written by Google, for same reason: it is better to stick to single language, for better ecosystem, than to fragment it. I, personally, just ignoring Dart, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc. Life is short.

We're stuck with javascript due to historical reasons, not because it's any good. I think that treating it as a bytecode, binaries, etc.. is the way to go. I.e. javascript (preferably fast subset of it) will be produced by proper tools and you'd never have to look at it again. Fragmentation is only natural.

So these languages exist precisely because life is short. Are they the perfect/stable solution? Probably not. But it's the right way to go.

We're stuck with javascript because it is good enough, so switching to an another language, e.g. Dart or VBScript, are not worth effort and consequences. JS even used at backend side. IMHO, it is better to invest into JS than to fight with it.

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