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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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Software Defined Talk: The AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary Acquisitions

Feb 1st, 2017 4:00am by
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With a flurry of merger and acquisitions activity over the past few weeks, this new episode of the Software Defined Talk podcast discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the “losers” are. Also, the low-down on Costco in Australia!

This episode features Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

Show Notes:

AppDynamics files for IPO… Cisco says Not So Fast

Atlassian Buys Trello for $425 Million

Oracle Buys Apiary

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show

HP and Google Buys Stuff too

You Know What DevOps Needs? An IEEE Standard

Do We Talk about President Trump?

RethinkDB: Why We Failed

Yahoo is Altaba

Google’s AI Awakening

Alexa

ClusterHQ Shutting Down

Facebook’s 2016 Open Source Contributions

Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky “State of the World”

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