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Re:JavaScript at 20 by BrendanEich on Friday May 15, 2015 @10:07PM (#9554757)
Use ES6 via http://babeljs.io/ already, and be happy :-P.
Re:JavaScript at 20 by girvo on Saturday May 16, 2015 @12:45AM (#9555078)
Definitely! Though, unit-testing becomes interesting, as `rewire`, `proxyquire` and other ways of changing the dependencies inside your modules when they are `import`-ed breaks.

However, it turns out having an AST of your Javascript code is really useful, and lets you do things like this: https://github.com/speedskater/babel-plugin-rewire