I actually find it ludicrous the author is complaining about JS's development as a language being too slow. Just the other day I presented ES2015/2016 and the u

I actually find it ludicrous the author is complaining about JS's development as a language being too slow. Just the other day I presented ES2015/2016 and the upcoming changes scheduled for 2017 to a room full of JavaScript developers and the general feedback was that JS was changing too quickly. The reason ES2015 was so huge and so delayed was actually that ES5 was pretty much the lowest common denominator everyone was able to agree on after the proposals for ES4 went up in flames. ES5 is necessarily incremental and ES2015's delay was mostly caused by the repercussions of ES4's failure -- ES4 failed because it valued innovation over backwards compatibility. I mean TC39 has announced that they will make a new release every year, batching whatever proposals are stable at that point. How can anyone call that particularly "slow" with a straight face?