No you dont need a transpiler. The new language features are exiting, but its really just old concepts from other languages. And IMHO these old conceps are not

No you dont need a transpiler. The new language features are exiting, but its really just old concepts from other languages. And IMHO these old conceps are not better and some of them are worse. JavaScript was lucky and got some things right, like first class functions, prototype instead of classes, function scope, no need for getter/setters. Node.js also got lucky with its module system. JavaScript was lucky because it was async. Javascript got adopted in more then just browsers because it was lightweight. Etc.