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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. Jonathan Stewart
Dr. Jonathan Stewart

Jonathan is a senior product manager at Puppet. Currently leading Puppet’s interest in helping DevOps teams with secure digital transformations by automating away mundane parts of work, freeing humans and computers to both do what they are good at. Previously Jonathan built collateral calculators for Global Financial Exchanges, trading systems for derivatives, and solutions that secure most of the Fortune 100. He holds a Ph.D. in marine biology with civil and mechanical engineering from Queens University Belfast and graduated top 10% from his MBA at Warwick Business School, England, specializing in pricing, branding and GTM of cybersecurity tools.