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Announcing Understanding ECMAScript 6
- acjohnson55 13y agoI'm really excited about this. One of my frustrations with MEAP type books is that I typically can't just directly make pull requests against the transcript. I have to resort to sending issue reports and hoping that the author will eventually translate those to fixes I could directly contribute. I really hope that this catches on as a viable method for creating and maintaining tech books. In many ways, it's applying the open source model to the book itself. I think this can take load and risk off the original author, especially when it comes to editing. It can also give continuous life to books that might otherwise become out of date as their authors move their primary focus to other projects. For instance, the authors of 2 Scoops of Django have already said that they plan for the latest edition to be the last. In an open source model, the book could continue to improve and evolve. And regarding the book itself, I have a lot of excitement. ES6 really has the opportunity to bring some long awaited modernity to JS.