I was talking to my manager the other day, discussing the languages we are using at $dayjob. He kind of offhandedly said that he thinks TypeScript is a temporary fad and soon everything will go back to using JavaScript. He doesn’t like that it’s made by Microsoft either.

I’m not a frontend developer so I don’t really know, but my general impression is that everything is moving more and more towards TypeScript, not away from it. But maybe I’m wrong?

Does anyone who actually works with TypeScript have any impression about this?

  • brian@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    it felt to me like coffeescript solved problems that people had, then js got equivalent features. arguably that could happen to ts as well

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      9 months ago

      Exactly, it was pretty useful until ~2015 imho. Then JS got better, and coffeescript did not follow these evolutions.