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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
Dr. Jerry Cooperstein
Dr. Jerry Cooperstein

Jerry first began working with computers in 1969, and has been working with Linux since 1994, developing and delivering training in both the kernel and userspace. He has overall responsibility for all training content at The Linux Foundation. For over two decades as a theoretical nuclear astrophysicist at universities and national laboratories in the U.S. and in Europe, Jerry developed state-of-the-art high-performance simulation software on many kinds of supercomputers and taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Jerry joined the Linux Foundation in 2009 as the training program director. He lives in Wisconsin.