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I'm in sympathy with your main argument, but given that people still, in 2023, hire for COBOL, a language made in 1959, makes me think you'll be eating your hat

• inopinatus 3y ago
  Notwithstanding that I'm effectively forecasting the decline & fall of TypeScript as javascript-flavour-of-the-month, note that I shrewdly also granted myself the better part of three decades to launch an edible headwear startup
  • claytongulick 3y ago
    Most of the perceived value that Typescript brings will probably fade once js gets type annotations [1], though Typescript will always have more advanced syntax and capabilities. There are interesting discussions about Typescript becoming more of a run-time type checker, which would be opt-in and have significant performance penalties, but would give more guarantees of type safety. [1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations