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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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Abby Kearns
Abby Kearns

Abby Kearns is a veteran tech executive as well as a board director and active angel investor. Her career has spanned executive leadership, product marketing, product management, and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike, including Puppet, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Pivotal Software, Verizon, and Totality. Abby currently serves as a board director Lightbend, Stackpath, and Invoke.