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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
Chris Latimer
Chris Latimer

Chris Latimer is vice president of product management at DataStax, where he leads the company's product strategy on event streaming and cloud messaging. Prior to DataStax, Chris spent over 20 years working in technology as a software engineer, architect and product manager at companies such as Google, NetJets, and Apigee.