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By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I’ve seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I’ve never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years. So it’s with great pleasure that I can announce we’re dropping TypeScript from the next big release of Turbo 8.
I think the best take on this is from Rich Harris at Svelte. They are dropping it for internal Dev because they get the same feature set from JSDoc and have no build step, but they keep it for Svelte users who want TS.