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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
Dan Condomitti
Dan Condomitti

Dan Condomitti is a co-founder and the head of engineering at FireHydrant, an incident management platform that lets you integrate tools, streamline processes, and quickly resolve incidents all without leaving Slack. In this role, Dan draws on his past experience at companies like Red Hat and CoreOS to guide the team building the incident management technology used by companies like CircleCI, Spotify, Snyk, and thousands of others.