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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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Greg Chase
Greg Chase

Greg Chase is director of product marketing for PagerDuty Automation and Rundeck. He's been in marketing and engineering in software companies for too many decades, evangelizing and building automation platforms, developer tools and data engineering frameworks. Before PagerDuty, Greg was at Kinetica, Pivotal Software, SAP and Oracle. Outside of work, he's owned by his two bearded collies.