Announcing “Exploring ES6”

Re:Announcing “Exploring ES6” by z3t4 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @05:31PM (#9712747)

Considering how many ppl that now use mobile phones to surf the world wide web and that mobile phone's usually don't auto-upgrade their browser, and that we still need to polyfill ES5 features, I wonder how many years it will take until ES6 can be safely used without first "compiling" it to the ES5 standard.

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Re:Announcing “Exploring ES6” by lebek on Saturday June 13, 2015 @07:59PM (#9713241)

I find this rather convenient - it strengthens the argument for considering languages other than ES6 that also compile to ES5 (Clojure, Scala, PureScript, TypeScript, etc).

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Re:Announcing “Exploring ES6” by dugword on Saturday June 13, 2015 @06:38PM (#9712998)

People use IE8 still because they are running 10+ year old computers. Mobile phones tend to get upgraded much quicker.

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Re:Announcing “Exploring ES6” by mofle on Saturday June 13, 2015 @07:05PM (#9713088)

By the time ES6 is everywhere you're using ES8 features which you'll have to polyfill/transpile.

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