> In many ways ES2015 is starting to look alot like other modern programming languages - that's a good thing. That depends on how you view Javascript. If you

> In many ways ES2015 is starting to look alot like other modern programming languages - that's a good thing. That depends on how you view Javascript. If you consider it a programming language, the growing-up is a good thing. Making developers more productive and all that jazz. Of course, core WATs in JS are at a deep enough level that they're going nowhere (backward compatibility folks!), and anyone who's not already invested in JS should have the sense to look elsewhere. If you consider it a runtime for delivering applications to the browser, it's really not so clearly a positive. A more complex language means more lock-in to existing runtimes, more room for bugs, more wasted engineering effort supporting the moving standard, less opportunity for lighter abstractions or more declarative assets amenable to static analysis ...