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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
George Huang
George Huang

George Huang is director of product marketing at Pulumi. He previously served as senior product marketing manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he led marketing for services like Honeycode, AWS Lambda, and AWS’s developer and infrastructure management tools. Prior to AWS, George was a VC Associate at Madrona Venture Group working on early-stage cloud startups.