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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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Suchakra Sharma
Suchakra Sharma

Suchakra is currently the Chief Scientist at Privado Inc. where he helps build code analysis tools and hunts for privacy and security bugs. He has been working on software systems analysis and security for a decade now. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal where he worked on eBPF technology and hardware-assisted tracing techniques for OS analysis. He invented the first hardware trace based virtual machine analysis techniques. He has delivered talks & training at RSA, BlackHat, USENIX LISA, and NorthSec, among other venues.