Barrier for entry for new developers.
I think JavaScript's huge success in the last decade is primarily attributed to the plug-and-play dependency ecosystem and dynamic typing
Beyond that, not much
I think JavaScript's huge success in the last decade is primarily attributed to the plug-and-play dependency ecosystem and dynamic typing
Beyond that, not much
What's the barrier exactly? And keep in mind typescript's growing popularity and momentum, which states quite clearly that the javascript community is more than willing to tolerate added layers of complexity just to be able to use static typing.
It was also free. At the time, IDE's and compilers were pretty expensive in the Windows world.