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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
Steve Gill
Steve Gill

Steve Gill is the director of developer relations, engineering at Slack, leading the company’s developer experience efforts and managing the team that develops Slack’s open sourced SDKs and tools. Previously, Steve was a senior open source engineer at Slack. Before that, he spent eight years at Adobe working on open source tools such as PhoneGap and helping create policies to grow Adobe’s open source involvement.