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Re:Babel has no money because someone took a $130K salary an... by glassounds on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:43AM (#27130912)
Babel doesn't necessarily need to transpile all the way to ES5, you can specify targets. It's a useful tool for using newer features even without supporting IE
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Re:Babel has no money because someone took a $130K salary an... by darepublic on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:12AM (#27155119)
The place where I see it as still necessary is transpiling code that uses es6 modules for web. If browsers all supported es6 modules and not half heartedly I think myself and a lot of devs could ditch Babel for good.
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