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I guess we should just understand what's the goal of scripting versus what's the goal of statically typed languages.

Statically typed languages should just provides code that need to be reused often. Also needed when you need performance or low power consumption.

Scripting should be about using those libraries together.

People should try to understand how gmail works, because I think javascript is just used for presenting data to a browser, while gmail servers do the heavilifting.




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