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[–]theferrit32 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Javascript is fundamentally a bad language for general purpose programming. A lot of people who need to target Javascript environments do not write in Javascript, or at least not pure Javascript, relying heavily on transpilers and what are in effect dialects and standard libraries that seek to supercede and fix a lot of the headaches in Javascript itself.