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Re:Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and ... by h1d on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:58AM (#16753603)
Seems you're tired of the entire JS ecosystem.

JS itself was in need of updates as it was completely left behind against many of modern languages despite still being in the center of the web.

You see how there are so many AltJS and transpilers because plain JS was dragging behind.

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Re:Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and ... by megaman22 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:39AM (#16755753)
Yet we're always transpliling JS anyway, all the time, for browser support. Might as well just bite the bullet and leave it as a compilation target and use something better, with less foot-guns.
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