JS especially has been a rocket-ship of new language features lately. It used to be my go-to language for new people since it was so simple (when used with a f

JS especially has been a rocket-ship of new language features lately. It used to be my go-to language for new people since it was so simple (when used with a few boundaries (like every language needs)) that it could be picked up and the basics understood fairly quickly, and you can set people free to look at other people's code, and gradually learn DOM APIs and whatnot as needed. Not any more. Not even close. The amount of stuff you have to deal with immediately is far larger now. I actually miss the days when people added this kind of stuff to their transpiler of choice (e.g. coffeescript) and just used that - it doesn't need to be in the language, because it can never be removed from the language. Let fads appear and die outside that barrier, not inside.