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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
Isaac Halvorson
Isaac Halvorson

Isaac is a software developer working for Tandem Diabetes Care as a mobile infrastructure engineer, building out tooling, infrastructure and processes for the iOS and Android dev teams to develop more efficiently. Outside of work, Isaac listens to as much music as he can (currently a lot of metal and yacht rock), is an amateur mechanic (with a particular appreciation for ‘80s and ‘90s Ford, GM, and Mazda), blogs at his website (hisaac.net), and spends time with his wife and three kids around the lakes and creeks in Minneapolis.