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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
Rado Marina
Rado Marina

Rado Marina has more than a decade’s experience as a multidisciplinary engineer across many domains and technologies — from servers, to automation, open source with Linux and Kubernetes, through web, cloud and monitoring. He has deep expertise working with huge cloud fleets and on-prem at data center scale. He is deeply passionate about bringing technology excellence to the organizations he works at, leading people by building a thriving engineering culture that is both healthy and delivers happiness, while still being highly productive. Today he leads the SRE practice at Firefly, helping large-scale companies bring their cloud up to code.