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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 Wong
Steve Wong

As part of the Kubernetes project, Steve Wong is chair of the VMware SIG, and a co-organizer of the IoT and Edge Working Group. He has contributed to open source projects in the container space since 2015 and is an engineer with the Cloud Native Applications business unit at VMware. Steve is a past speaker at KubeCon and OpenSource Summit, and co-chaired the container track at the SCALE conference in the Los Angeles area where he lives.