nytai edited a comment on issue #9101: [SIP-36] Proposal for standardizing use of TypeScript URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/issues/9101#issuecomment-584289069 While reason and elm are excellent languages to start new projects in and have a lot of benefits in terms of type safety I don't think it makes sense to introduce those technologies to superset (yet). Typescript is merely a superset of javascript, thus all javascript is valid typescript, the same cannot be said about elm or reason. Reason and elm are compiled languages with compiler checks and the code that's run in the browser can be quite different than the code written by the developer. From a strictly type safety perspective, you are correct those 2 languages provide much greater safety than typescript. However, introducing these technologies would mean a significantly change in the developer experience and workflow. At this point it's not reasonable to propose porting the existing codebase to reason or elm, nor does it seem reasonable to support 2 distinct developer experiences for the same code. >Well, both Reason and Elm are used by much larger amounts of people, so that argument does not apply to them. I'm not sure this is accurate, the number of developers writing typescript exceeds the number of developers writing reason and elm by orders of magnitude. The stack [overflow developer survey](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-popular-technologies) does not even include those languages in their rankings.
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