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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
Jiang Chen
Jiang Chen

Jiang Chen is Vice President of Machine Learning and Co-founder at Moveworks. With more than a decade of experience in engineering roles at Google, AirBnB and Yahoo!, Chen has built breakthrough information retrieval systems, which leverage machine learning to provide optimized search results to billions of users. Chen holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.