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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
Fabrice Bellingard
Fabrice Bellingard

Fabrice Bellingard is vice president of products at SonarSource. He has been involved in many open source projects since the early 2000s, ranging from Eclipse projects to Apache ones. Since October 2010, he has been working as a product manager at SonarSource, overseeing the SonarQube and SonarLint open source projects, as well as the SonarCloud online service.