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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
Evan Pease
Evan Pease

Evan Pease is an engineer focused on real-time analytics, micro-service architectures, and big data. His past work was focused on search, log analytics, and e-commerce. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and has lived in Southern California since 2008. Evan works for Wavefront as an engineer in the field helping companies instrument their systems for operational and business intelligence.