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[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 23 June 2022 at 05:51:47 UTC, forkit wrote:
> Even Javascript has realised this recently. It's more powerful 
> than D now, as far as strong typing goes! I never thought I'd 
> say that...yeepers!
>

Have you considered that this move is 1/ not that recent (it 10+ 
years old now) and 2/ some of the people you are arguing against 
have worked on building these systems?