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Re:JavaScript TC39 implementing hashmark private class fields by camus2 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:30PM (#14923544)
> The point was that the syntactic sugar isn't needed.

Yes it is. The success of CoffeeSCript is absolutely a validation that developers are more productive with syntactic sugar such as the class keyword, destructuring and many many other features.

Now nobody forces you to use them. So why complain? It doesn't make Javascript harder to read for you, quite the contrary.

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Re:JavaScript TC39 implementing hashmark private class fields by just_astounded on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:47PM (#14923717)
> So why complain?

So it is your opinion that the community and users shouldn't give feedback on the design and direction of the language they use every day? That's an interesting approach to openness.

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