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> just a bunch of macros for JavaScript

It isn't any macros. Not sure what you're talking about.

> all the usual footguns of vanilla JS still apply

Yeah that does suck but fortunately ESLint and Typescript have options to prevent most of them. If you use Deno they're enabled by default.

> including many performance optimizations that could be made in a statically typed runtime

Also true, but we're comparing it to PHP and Python.



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