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> hasn't been the case for years For 10 years, actually. ES6 - otherwise known as ECMAScript 2015 - did in fact come out 10 years ago. - https://en.wikipedia.
by romellem 2y ago
> hasn't been the case for years
For 10 years, actually. ES6 - otherwise known as ECMAScript 2015 - did in fact come out 10 years ago.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th_Edition_%E2%80%93_ECMAScript_2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th...
It truly did improve the JS landscape by an order of magnitude.
For those unfamiliar with the extensive features this brought to JS, here is a good list:
- https://rse.github.io/es6-features/ https://rse.github.io/es6-features/
- everybodyknows 2y agoES6 modules make it straightforward to reform great piles of unstructured JS hackery into hierarchical dependency-controlled units for which you can actually reliably draw a block diagram. Hmm, or maybe get Claude to draw it for you ...