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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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AUTHOR PROFILE
Ash Narkar
Ash Narkar

Ash Narkar is a core contributor to the open source Open Policy Agent project. Ash has 5 years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems. Ash is a Senior Software Engineer at Styra, Inc working on OPA development and integrations. Previously he was a principal engineer at Verizon Labs where he worked on itsIoT platform. Ash also worked as a software engineer at Cyan (acquired by Ciena), where he contributed to the core components of its SDN platform. Ash has presented the OPA project at the CNCF End User Community Meeting and other meetups.