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Will JavaScript type annotations kill TypeScript?
The creators of Svelte and Turbo 8 both dropped TS recently saying that "it's not worth it".
Yes: If JavaScript gets type annotations then there's no reason for TypeScript to exist.
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No: TypeScript remains the best language for structuring large enterprise applications.
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TBD: The existing user base and its corpensource owner means that TypeScript isn’t likely to reach EOL without a putting up a fight.
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I hope they both die. I mean, if you really need strong types in the browser then you could leverage WASM and use a real programming language.
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I don’t know and I don’t care.
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As The Nerds Turn by Marc Andreessen

Jun 24th, 2014 1:01am by
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Marc Andreessen, the browser inventor turned VC, just posted one of his tweet fire, something like a staccato blog updates. He is calling it “As The Nerds Turn.” Let’s take it from the top:

You can sat what you want about Andreessen’s style — he’s a rallying defender of the nerds of the world. And that goes a long way in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and almost anywhere in the world where you find developers who communicate with code but are rarely understood.

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