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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
Keshav Murthy
Keshav Murthy

With over 20 years of experience in database server development, Keshav Murthy is VP, R&D at Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE), a cloud database platform company that 30% of the Fortune 100 depend on. He has led R&D teams at MapR, IBM, Informix and Sybase. He holds fifteen US patents.