Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional?

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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?

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I work in investment banking environments (calculations). Python is everywhere. Java and C++ as well.

Yeah calculations, not actual software... how is this hard to understand... you don't write long lived, stable software that multiple developers work on that needs to do real work in python