After writing Clojure & Clojuresript for a few years, any language that spins around its syntax would feel terrible. Modern JavaScript looks like a 400-pound diabetic who brags about his skin folds, "check this out man, I can hide two full-sized cans of beer and you wouldn't even know it..."

What's the point of this cabalistic trick with commas? How does it improve anything about code? Readability, parseability, formatting, reasoning? I feel we're moving towards the day when the browsers would mark websites with a badge "built without use of JavaScript", so we know it can be trusted.

You can still do this in Typescript.