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JavaScript is a worse language than PHP in some ways, for example no native type hinting, no native filter map reduce on hash tables, no explicit variable import into scope

I'm not saying PHP is a better asynchronous language than NodeJS but I'd definitely be wary of JavaScript unless you're interested in compiling

If you're interested in compiling then there are some very good languages in that space that are not JavaScript, Go, #F, etc

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>no native type hinting

True, but you can use TypeScript, which I expect is more advanced than PHP's typing.

>no native filter map reduce on hash table

What do you mean by that? There is Object.keys/Object.values/Object.entries.

>no explicit variable import into scope

What do you mean by this? You can import a variable from a module.

Use typescript or flow if you want types.

Now we are compiling (sorry transpiling). If we are going to do that why not use e.g. Go?

Technically transpiling is just a more specific kind of compiling, so you’re not wrong in saying compiling.

What's your point? All interpreted languages have to be compiled anyway, you have to create an AST, convert it to bytecode, and then interpret it or JIT it.

It takes 5 minutes to set that up. No reasonable person is going to switch languages for that reason.

Because I want to use JS with types and compiler rather than runtime error? If you are using Go, why not use Rust?

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