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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
Ben Evans
Ben Evans

Ben is a true Java guru who works from New Relic’s European development center in Barcelona. He is also a Java Champion, a three-time JavaOne Rock Star speaker and a prolific author of Java books, including “The Well-Grounded Java Developer” and lead author of “Optimizing Java” and the new edition of “Java in A Nutshell.” He spent six years as a member of the Java Community Process Executive Committee (aka the JCP EC) helping define standards for the Java ecosystem