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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
Matthew Yacobucci
Matthew Yacobucci

Matthew “Booch” Yacobucci is a principal software engineer at F5, where he focuses on Kubernetes technologies, including NGINX Ingress Controller and NGINX Service Mesh. He’s experienced in the distributed computing and networking industries with skills in Linux, Go, container orchestration systems, concurrency patterns and lunch."