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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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Google Flutter Now Rivals Facebook’s React Native in Dev Use

Twice as many professional developers extensively used Google’s open source cross-platform user interface toolkit Flutter in the last year as compared to what was reported in previously according to Stack Overflow's 2021 Developer Survey. It is so hot that is now it is approaching React Native as the leading cross-platform mobile framework for developers.
Aug 12th, 2021 10:52am by
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Twice as many professional developers extensively used Google’s open source cross-platform mobile framework Flutter in the last year as compared to what was reported in previously according to Stack Overflow’s 2021 Developer Survey. It is so hot that is now it is approaching React Native as the leading user interface toolkit for developers.

With beefed-up web support, Flutter is now looking to gain more users. Admittedly, React.js, the big brother of React Native, was used by 41%, but its penetration rate is slowing. As new applications are built, we see that React activity continues to skyrocket, but so does Flutter’s. It remains to be determined if mobile, web and cloud will forever be separate domains. If not, then perhaps we will really see Dart rise further on RedMonk’s Top 20 Languages chart.

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