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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
Imaya Kumar Jagannathan
Imaya Kumar Jagannathan

Imaya Kumar Jagannathan is a Worldwide Principal Specialist Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services. He specializes in Observability and talks to hundreds of customers each year in helping them design, architect and optimize their Observability environments. He is an open-source thought leader, and has initiated several projects to help accelerate Observability adoption for AWS customers.