bonus: rough illustration of why time, despite being a distant second on the list of language pain points, may have been addressed first

i think roughly 20-30% of devs just hate change. but static typing and TS are legit controversial.

March 11, 2026 - 20:35 UTC

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Where is that from? What does the red signify?

I’ve been a supporter of static typing built in. What is typescript support? Typescript support natively? Yes please
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The base chart is from Jason's blog. The red bars are my personal guess at what proportion of JS devs would not want to see that kind of change.

i.e. static typing, though highly desired, is also highly controversial. While Temporal just gets the ~20% who dislike any change.
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