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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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Mikhail Shilkov
Mikhail Shilkov

Mikhail is an experienced software developer, a Microsoft Azure MVP, a Russian expat living in the Netherlands. He is passionate about cloud technologies, functional programming, and the intersection of the two. He believes in the power of the serverless mindset, leveraging the full variety of managed cloud services, and handling cloud infrastructure as code. He is a blogger at mikhail.io, an amateur speaker at conferences and meetups, a co-host of the meetup F#P Eindhoven and the conference ServerlessDays Amsterdam.