These languages benefit from their legacy, but rarely does a new dynamically typed language comes up. JavaScript was, IIRC, a language developed hastily, but it was the only option so it stuck. It’s not just dynamically typed languages, languages like Java and C++ which aren’t good statically typed languages we should be competing with also benefit from its legacy. However, as a new language, we should be compared to modern statically typed languages like GO, Rust, etc…
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