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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
Venkat Ramakrishnan
Venkat Ramakrishnan

Venkat Ramakrishnan is vice president of products and engineering for Portworx, at Pure Storage. Since joining Portworx in 2016, he has helped the team create a new category of data management, protection and data services for Kubernetes and containers. Prior to joining Portworx, Venkat gained extensive experience in the storage and software-defined data center space at Cisco, IBM, Fusion-IO, AMD and Western Digital.