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?
What’s the point of calling something a “fad”? If the technology works well and it provides value to you, why should you care what other people think?
(Example: Look at PHP)
The point of calling something is fad is a way to tell you that you shouldn’t invest a lot of time into this because that knowledge will become obsolete soon.
I mean this is particularly relevant in the JS world because every week there’s a new revolutionary framework that renders the previous framework obsolete. (Although, not sure if that’s slowing down now…)
Unfortunately when it comes to my manager, I can’t just ignore what he says as his opinions actually has an influence on what technology we use and such.