My take is that people who fear COBOL probably haven't seen pre-ES5[0] JavaScript. [0] While ES2015 was a major leap in and of itself, it wouldn't have happene

My take is that people who fear COBOL probably haven't seen pre-ES5[0] JavaScript. [0] While ES2015 was a major leap in and of itself, it wouldn't have happened had ES5 not laid the groundwork by introducing "minor improvements" that we now take for granted like JSON, strict mode and Function.prototype.bind to name a few.