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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
Morgan McLean
Morgan McLean

Morgan McLean is a director of product management at Splunk focused on the Splunk Observability Cloud, along with Splunk’s contributions to OpenTelemetry and the agent and ingestion unification between Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk Enterprise. Additionally, he is the co-founder of OpenCensus and OpenTelemetry, now the second largest CNCF project behind only Kubernetes. Prior to Splunk, Morgan spent five years as a product manager at Google Cloud Platform working on DevOps and observability initiatives, along with over three years at Microsoft as a program manager designing and implementing e-commerce services. Morgan has a BASc in Engineering Physics and a BA in Economics from the University of British Columbia.