JavaScript abuse keeps going on... A language designed for simple browser automation is turning into a plague. It's funny how we bounce from one extreme to another wasting so much effort and focus - many people moved from Java to JavaScript as a revolt against the complexity of the Java ecosystem and specs and laziness to code strongly typed. But look at the JavaScript ecosystem today - with Babel and the JSON libraries, it overshadows the old Java one! Pretty much every Java and XML technology got reinvented and reimplemented in worse ways. And now many replaced JavaScript with TypeScript...