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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
Raj Rajamani
Raj Rajamani

Raj Rajamani as chief product officer of Crowdstrike, he leads the engineering and products teams for data, identity, eloud, endpoint protection platform (EPP) and extended detection and response (XDR) portfolio. Prior to CrowdStrike, he was chief product officer at SentinelOne. Raj’s experience also includes leadership stints in Cylance (acquired by BlackBerry), Marketo (IPO) and McAfee. He has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.