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I think it stems from the language with it's simple untyped syntax and data-structures.

I like larger projects to be typed and my favorite language at the moment is definitely kotlin, but for quick prototyping I really like hacking things together in JS.



You could always check out https://flowtype.org/


It's not just about being typed or not. I know huge, successful Ruby codebases which is not typed. Ruby ecosystem is just much more consistent and convenient than JS.


Just to be clear for folks who don't know. Ruby is _strongly_ typed, but it's also _dynamically_ typed not _statically_ typed.


I know ruby. I worked with "merb" for a project (before it became rails 3) and use it for shellscripts from time to time.

Still JS is somehow more pleasurable, but I guess it's a matter of taste.




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