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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
Fangrui Liu
Fangrui Liu

Fangrui Liu is a Data Scientist at MyScale who now leads the research on boosting vector databases with LLMs. He is interested in representation learning among high dimensional data as well as the fundamental theories beneath those statistics, like manifold theory and information theory. He also contributes to the open source community like LangChain and LlamaIndex, providing insights on the cutting edge technology with LLMs and other AI models.