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Is this a joke? It's presented a bit as a joke, but not sure.

• jakub_g 9y ago
  The ES committee has decided to do yearly releases instead of feature-based releases. No more waiting for things to get finished; if it's not ready, it gets postponed to the next version of the standard. Hence the official terminology is ES2015, ES2016 etc. "ES6" stayed there in dev parlance because it was the initial name while the work was in progress.
  • masklinn 9y ago
    > The ES committee has decided to do yearly releases instead of feature-based releases. No more waiting for things to get finished Indeed, and so that people understand the concept of "finished", "TC39" (ECMAScript) proposals have 5 stages: * Stage 0 (strawman), having an idea * Stage 1 (proposal), making a formal proposal explaining the problem, the general shape of a solution, an example high-level API, and identifying cross-cutting concerns and issues * Stage 2 (draft) is the writing of the formal specification * Stage 3 (candidate) is the completion of the formal specification and its sign-off by reviewers and the ECMAScript editor, no further work is possible without implementation feedback * Stage 4 (finished) is a test262 acceptance test suite and two independent compatible implementations, the feature will be included in the next ECMAScript standard revision