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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
David Zendzian
David Zendzian

With more than 30 years of IT and security experience in financial services, health care and global retail organizations, David Zendzian leads the VMware Tanzu Global Field CISO team. David was a founding member and CISO for an NYC FDIC–regulated bank and co-founded ZZ Servers, a multi-regional provider of private cloud managed hosting and security for PCI and other security solutions. Prior to that, David spent more than a decade as a PCI QSA and penetration tester working with companies globally.