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TypeScript works well because they don’t worry about soundness and completeness. The type system isn’t trying to be perfect, just useful. This scares PL theorists, but I think it has been a very profitable corner of the design space to explore.

Variance rarely comes up in Kotlin because they don’t push immutability as much as Scala did. It’s like, there as an option but I’ve used it a total of two times in the last two years of full time Kotlin programming. Compared to typescript, Kotlin is fairly boring, but it is tooled well and is a vast improvement over Java.



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