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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
Titus Fortner
Titus Fortner

Titus Fortner is the Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Sauce Labs and is a core contributor to the Selenium project. He spends a significant amount of time writing open source testing software built on top of Selenium, acts as the project lead for Watir and is active in supporting these projects on Stack Overflow, message boards, and in the Selenium Slack and irc.