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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
Jason Morgan
Jason Morgan

Jason Morgan is co-chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Business Value Subcommittee and Developer Evangelist for Linkerd at Buoyant where he helps educate engineers on Linkerd, the original service mesh. Passionate about helping others on their cloud native journey, Jason enjoys sharing lessons learned with the broader developer community.