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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
Ryan Mack
Ryan Mack

Ryan is Director of Engineering at Uptycs, where he enjoys bouncing around between kernel code, data pipelines, and even compilers to provide comprehensive security for container workloads, from build-time through large-scale production deployment. Prior to Uptycs, Ryan built teams solving exabyte-scale data challenges and scaling globally-distributed compute clusters at Facebook.