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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
Stephan Benny
Stephan Benny

Stephan Benny is senior director of engineering at Rafay Systems. He previously was a founding engineer at Soha Systems involved in the development of zero trust access solutions. Before that, during his tenure at IBM, Stephan significantly contributed to driving advancements in the domains of software-defined networking (SDN) and overlay networks.