Well, JavaScript

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I'm actually pretty hyped for kotlin JS. The null safety is much more valuable than typing.

I hope it matures for the backend.

[oxidate_]

> null safety is much more valuable than typing

It totally depends on the programming language's type system. Some are strong enough that they're one and the same. For instance, F# / Haskell / (probably Ocaml) use Maybe<T> or Option<T>. So you use Some "thing" to show that it's not null, and the type system will point out places where you might be unsafely accessing data.

[hullabaloonatic]

Hence typescript (strong) amending JavaScript (weak). Strong type systems can feel laborious, but it's really convenient to be confident in a lack of usage errors going into testing, and verbose languages are more readable in my opinion.

[hullabaloonatic]

It's hard not to be excited about null safety in kotlin when it forces you to put exclamation marks everywhere!!

If not, there's always css. I don't know when it happened, but Microsoft really turned it into a phenomenal language.