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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
Paige Cruz
Paige Cruz

Paige Cruz is a senior developer advocate at Chronosphere who spent the first part of her career as a software engineer-turned-site reliability engineer at New Relic and Lightstep among others. She is passionate about cultivating sustainable on-call practices and debugging production with distributed tracing. Off the clock you can find her spinning yarn, knitting, weaving and swooning over alpacas.