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Re:Why Babel Matters by tracker1 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:43AM (#9575297)
Using ES6 (or CommonJS) module syntax, you can create minimal, testable modules that are very easy to reason about, and minimize the need for specific type safety concerns. I do think that TypeScript will gain a lot of a following, especially with Angular2... just the same, I've now worked on some pretty big node/web projects and haven't needed the type safety.

I've been using babel --stage 0 (for ES7 adds) for my current projects, and async/await are absolutely invaluable[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/tracker1/status/598912227920334848

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Re:Why Babel Matters by girvo on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @09:31AM (#9576152)
Flummox or Alt (both are flux implementations) with async actions: my favourite part of JavaScript at the moment. The fact that the regenerator runtime means async/await wrap regular promise based libraries with zero hassle is just brilliant!
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