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?

  • To be honest Typescript and Javascript for me are both very bad Hacks driven languages. I explain myself: I’ve worked on a project for a client, with other devs who were experienced js/ts devs. Before to get on, I’ve read a book about them, went through the docs. But in the end, I would push PRs, and there was some hacky way to do stuff, now some stuff is just bad developers, choosing the hacky “obscure” undocumented way to do something, but other solutions were clear enough that deserved to be documented. Overall I am better off without using those