JavaScript vs TypeScript
2 members list JavaScript, up 2 in the last 12 weeks, data as of 18 September 2026
7 members list TypeScript, up 7 in the last 12 weeks, data as of 18 September 2026
How has interest in each changed?
Collected from public datasets outside Stackness, not from stacks on this site. A series both tools have shares one chart and one scale, because its unit is the same for both. Data sources
Mentions, monthly
JavaScript: Hacker News mentions: 10 mentions (2007) to 963 mentions (2026)
TypeScript: Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2009) to 691 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
Rank, monthly
JavaScript: RedMonk language rankings rank: 1 position (2012) to 1 position (2026)
TypeScript: RedMonk language rankings rank: 17 position (2017) to 6 position (2026)
Imported from RedMonk language rankings
Usage share, yearly
JavaScript: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 55.58 % of respondents (2011) to 66.32 % of respondents (2025)
TypeScript: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 9.52 % of respondents (2017) to 43.76 % of respondents (2025)
Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey
Pageviews, monthly
JavaScript: Wikipedia pageviews: 134,436 views (2015) to 55,223 views (2026)
TypeScript: Wikipedia pageviews: 13,800 views (2015) to 24,185 views (2026)
Imported from Wikipedia pageviews
Series only one of them has
TypeScript: Homebrew analytics installs: 1,658 installs (2026). Imported from Homebrew analytics.
TypeScript: Homebrew analytics installs: 20,023 installs (2026). Imported from Homebrew analytics.
TypeScript: npm downloads: 3,408 downloads (2015) to 1,074,433,234 downloads (2026). Imported from npm downloads.
TypeScript: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 1 question (2009) to 4 questions (2026). Imported from Stack Exchange data explorer.
TypeScript: State of JS satisfaction: 85.3 % who would use it again (2017). Imported from State of JS.
TypeScript: State of JS usage share: 39.4 % of respondents (2017). Imported from State of JS.
Who uses both?
1 member lists both JavaScript and TypeScript.
No member has recorded moving from one to the other yet.
What do people pair them with?
Tools that members list in the same stack as each of them.
Paired with both
Only with JavaScript
Only with TypeScript
How do they differ?
TypeScript is JavaScript with static types added, and compiles to plain JavaScript, so every TypeScript user is also a JavaScript user. The choice is whether the type checker earns its keep. Teams working on larger codebases, with several contributors or long-lived code, now start in TypeScript almost by default, and runtimes increasingly run it directly. Plain JavaScript stays common for small scripts, quick prototypes and libraries that prefer to avoid a build step, often with JSDoc comments to get some type checking anyway.
Written by Sergei Gordeichuk,