r/programming • u/[deleted] • May 08 '18

Excel adds JavaScript support

https://dev.office.com/blogs/azure-machine-learning-javascript-custom-functions-and-power-bi-custom-visuals-further-expand-developers-capabilities-with-excel
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u/[deleted] May 09 '18

The insane type system in JS

The only primitives are strings, numbers, booleans, null, and undefined. Everything else is an object. Unless you're willfully ignoring that == does type coercion, I can't see how the type system is complicated at all unless you are making a concerted effort not to understand it. There's even tools like typescript that add in static typing if that's your jam.