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"Good" compared to what? All the mentioned languages keep getting more performant year-over-year, but in the medium future scripting languages are unlikely to reach the performance levels of C, Rust or other low-level languages.

Wouldn't it be amazing though? Maybe some combination of JIT and runtime static analysis could do it.

Personally, I never assign different types to the same variable unless it's part of a union (e.g. string | HTMLObject | null, in JS).

It would probably require getting rid of `eval' though, which I am fine with. On average, eval() tends to be naughty and those needs could be better met in other ways than blindly executing a string.



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