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		stephenr on May 17, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Man... That just Sounds like an even stronger argument to add types to the language.

paulddraper on May 18, 2025 | [–]

Yeah.

The hard part is that types are very hard/complex, with many tradeoffs.

A standard with strong backwards compat and is interpreted consistently is hard (see Python).

chrisweekly on May 17, 2025 | [–]

Could be.

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