"That being said, I think the popularity of Typescript and Flow show that web developers do want static typing, I'm just not sure how likely it will be for Kotlin to become a popular option."
Well... Some do. And a lot of web developers really like JS and don't feel like it being a static language adds any real value. I think both sides of the argument make sense. I definitely understand peoples reasons for loving typescript. I work on a huge app built with angular 2+. And I honestly hate typescript. I have yet to see "static typing" solve any problems that arise from bad coding practices that slip through the cracks when you have 200+ devs working on the same app. (which is the promise of typescript). In my real world working experience, typescript is just an extra-bloated superset of javascript that doesn't actually fix any problems. I think the real strength of typescript is it makes people who are very familiar with static languages happier with JS...
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"That being said, I think the popularity of Typescript and Flow show that web developers do want static typing, I'm just not sure how likely it will be for Kotlin to become a popular option."
Well... Some do. And a lot of web developers really like JS and don't feel like it being a static language adds any real value. I think both sides of the argument make sense. I definitely understand peoples reasons for loving typescript. I work on a huge app built with angular 2+. And I honestly hate typescript. I have yet to see "static typing" solve any problems that arise from bad coding practices that slip through the cracks when you have 200+ devs working on the same app. (which is the promise of typescript). In my real world working experience, typescript is just an extra-bloated superset of javascript that doesn't actually fix any problems. I think the real strength of typescript is it makes people who are very familiar with static languages happier with JS...