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Obviously if you are deliberately avoiding new language features, you're still going to be writing the same JS as you were in the early 2000s. I could write Pyt
by schwartzworld 8y ago
Obviously if you are deliberately avoiding new language features, you're still going to be writing the same JS as you were in the early 2000s. I could write Python 2.7 and it would be pretty much the same thing.
However, a lot of ES6+ features offer more than just syntactic sugar. For example, arrow functions remove a lot of weirdness regarding 'this'.
- ungzd 8y agoThere's two javascripts: one that really works in browsers, and it's still ES5. And other javascript, that works on abstract virtual machine implemented inside Babel. And only the first one is "real" javascript.