When I'm writing code, getters and setters are a huge help for abstraction. I won't give up using a feature only because it's not the "convention". Look at the

When I'm writing code, getters and setters are a huge help for abstraction. I won't give up using a feature only because it's not the "convention". Look at the trouble frameworks like angular and knockout go through (secondary event loop, calling functions for assignments...) because some browsers do not support getters and setters. I can use them on the server side at least.