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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
Neel Phadnis
Neel Phadnis

Neel Phadnis is the director of developer engagement at Aerospike. He is a technologist with leadership experience in building innovative products and bringing them to market. He has held senior engineering management roles at Tealeaf, Efficient Frontier, AOL and Netscape. Neel holds an MBA from Boston University, master’s in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.