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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by a1371 on Saturday May 15, 2021 @02:32PM (#27167688)
You're comparing Elixir & Ruby with Babel, not vanilla JavaScript. You are putting your code on non-standard JavaScript, that's on you.
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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by dragonwriter on Saturday May 15, 2021 @02:40PM (#27167756)
> You're comparing Elixir & Ruby with Babel, not vanilla JavaScript. You are putting your code on non-standard JavaScript, that's on you.

Babel is the only way to use modern standard JS without excluding older browsers.

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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by austincheney on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:31PM (#27169601)
I completely disagree. The TypeScript compiler allows you to specify a compile target against a version of JavaScript. That means you can write modern TypeScript and have it compile to ES3.
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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by dragonwriter on Sunday May 16, 2021 @11:26AM (#27174297)
Well, yeah, but then you’re using modern TypeScript, not modern JavaScript.
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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by Oddskar on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:53AM (#27181673)
Modern Javascript is a subset of TypeScript though.
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