It doesn't have to be this way. At least stuff like Elm forces semver on your projects. It detects if your new version has breaking changes and won't publish it

It doesn't have to be this way. At least stuff like Elm forces semver on your projects. It detects if your new version has breaking changes and won't publish it unless you bump it up a version. That said, Elm is super niche and will probably never be popular. But my point is, there's people doing it right. I too am confused about Babel 6... but to be fair I haven't looked too much into it. I just think it's weird that something as "simple" as doing ES2015 -> ES5 now has plugins and a whole ecosystem around it. I understand the creator's ambitions, but I'd prefer to just install it and plug it to my build system. I don't know much about Go, but I am personally looking into Elixir as another backend choice.