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> Babel #13 > First called `5to6`, the compiler Babel helped make the > ES6 version of JavaScript popular and was a key part of > React success. It was c
by legerdemain 6y ago
> Babel #13
> First called `5to6`, the compiler Babel helped make the
> ES6 version of JavaScript popular and was a key part of
> React success.
It was called "6to5" for reasons that should be obvious.
But it's also just an irrelevant factoid on a timeline that at first seems to be a history of influential JS projects over the past 15 years, but in reality just takes some projects that are well-known today and kind of arbitrarily arranges them.