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That sounds like hell to a front-end developer. Its bad enough learning coffeescript or other dialects if a company uses them, but other languages too?

Isn't that like saying that having many server side languages is hell to server-side developers?

And isn't it making JavaScript effectively a jack of all trades? You might want to run code on the browser that is better expressed in a different language. After all, the days of client-side code being just a few value checks and DOM manipulation are beginning to disappear.




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