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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.



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


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




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