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Nahhhh lets get the immutable data structures (record + tuples) proposal to land, this one is of much more value IMO

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple

This is zero-sum thinking. I don't think there's huge value in playing "me first!" games.

I don't think there is value in type hints that don't do anything. Especially because JS is sent over the wire. We already have a compile time type checking system called Typescript.

If you want JavaScript to enforce types in the browser that is a larger discussion.

JS build pipelines are an industrialized software shithole, & we're starting to look like the other worst offenders (python). relief is needed. js was, for decades, simple & easy & sparked joy. it can again. this proposal potentially liberates & eases enormous pains.

it also means we dont have armies of projects downcompiling to es2015 (unperformant) and/or cjs.

> js was, for decades, simple & easy & sparked joy.

This is total revisionism. Using JS to program anything substantial was a total nightmare in decades past. I've been building websites since the early 2000s, JS is more ergonomic and capable now than ever before IMO.

This 100!

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