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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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Open Source

Non-Contributing Developers Expect Companies to Support Open Source

Companies should encourage its developers to spend part of the workday contributing to open source whether or not a project is managed internally by the company itself.
May 13th, 2020 8:59am by
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Eighty-five percent of open source contributors expect companies to be involved with the open source movement according to SlashData’s “State of the Developer Nation Q4 2019.” But, when asked about specifics, only 44% of contributors think companies should contribute and provide support to open source communities.

Does this mean companies should finance independent developers or have their own employees work on community projects? Believers in open source business models desperately want the former to be true. Yet, a more realistic goal is for companies to encourage their developers to spend part of the workday contributing to open source, whether or not a project is managed internally by the company itself.

Of the 17,000 developers surveyed, 59% contribute to open source software and 41% do not. Remarkably, two-thirds of the non-contributing developers still expect companies to support the open source movement to some degree. This is a reminder that many developers consume open source without actually giving back.

If you have opinions about the components of good open source corporate citizenship, please take our survey on open source in the enterprise. In partnership with The Linux Foundation’s TODO Group and co-sponsored by VMware, the third annual survey, which is open for responses right now, looks at the effectiveness of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) and policies that govern open software development.

When asked why developers contribute, they offered a wide range of reasons, from skill development to resolving a bug or building a new feature onto an existing project. Only 3% say they are actually paid to contribute, although most contributions to the biggest cloud native projects come from tech company employees.

Source: SlashData’s “State of the Developer Nation Q4 2019“.

Feature image is a photo of comedians Terry Thomas and Red Skeleton via Pixabay.

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