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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
Javier Salmeron
Javier Salmeron

Javier has a PhD in computer engineering and has worked for several years in both researching and teaching the application of cloud-native technologies to high-performance computing. He currently works as an engineer at Bitnami, now VMware, where he packages applications ready to be deployed on a wide variety of platforms: bare metal servers, virtual machines, cloud instances, containers and Kubernetes clusters. One of his latest contributions is Kubernetes Sandbox, an all-in-one single VM cluster available in cloud providers like Google Cloud, AWS and Oracle Cloud.