> This was addressed through Promises and more recently Observables, Generators, and async/await. Parent is talking about ES2015 constructs (or ES2016, in the

> This was addressed through Promises and more recently Observables, Generators, and async/await. Parent is talking about ES2015 constructs (or ES2016, in the case of async/await). I don't think anyone will disagree that doing async stuff in ES5 is a massive PITA- but it's a bit disingenuous to claim that the newer Javascript specifications aren't doing enough to fix those problems. That said, four years ago I would have agreed with you- Coffeescript seemed to be the only game in town making an effort to improve the state of Javascript. But I think the embrace of transpilers in front-end engineering has only helped Javascript thrive, by allowing the community (and core developers) to more easily determine what features will actually make the language better. (On a completely unrelated note, nice username- DCSS reference?)