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?

  • @[email protected]
    36•7 months ago

    5 years ago everything was moving to TypeScript. Now everything has moved. Developers are still catching up, but it will be one-way traffic from here.

    I’m guessing your manager thinks TypeScript is like CoffeeScript. It is not like CoffeeScript.

    Also, TypeScript is only the beginning. In the halls of the tech giants most devs view TypeScript as a sticking plaster until things can be moved to webassembly. It will be a long time until that makes any dent in JS, but it will also be one-way traffic when it does.

    • @aidan
      1•7 months ago

      Developers are still catching up, but it will be one-way traffic from here.

      Honestly I disagree, maybe I exist in a bit of an echo chamber, but it seems like since around ES2020 or so (some) people have been transitioning from TS to write JS with JSDoc and modern JS style rules.

      I’ve basically transitioned to Go for work(where I can), but don’t really mind writing modern JS