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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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Kat Cosgrove
Kat Cosgrove

Kat Cosgrove is a lead developer advocate at Dell. She specializes in approachable, 101-level educational content on a variety of topics within the DevOps umbrella, especially CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. When she's not building demos or at a conference, she spends her time playing video games, watching horror movies and reading science fiction. She lives with her cat, Espresso, who is the real brains behind the operation and actually ghostwriting all of her tweets.