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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
David Nalley
David Nalley

David Nalley has been involved in open source for nearly two decades. He is the head of open source strategy and marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and currently serves as the president of the Apache Software Foundation and serves on the board of directors for the Internet Security Research Group. You can follow him on Twitter (@ke4qqq).