ES6 modules are actually a nice combination of the asynchronicity of AMD (really required in a browser) and the code clarity of commonJS, so it's not really the

ES6 modules are actually a nice combination of the asynchronicity of AMD (really required in a browser) and the code clarity of commonJS, so it's not really the case that it's not solving anything that commonJS doesn't solve. It also deals with circular dependencies better than CommonJS. On top of that, module loaders provide hooks, so it's quite possible to use a module loader (e.g. System.JS) that can load commonjs or amd modules. Browserify is brilliant, and if I couldn't use es6 I'd be using it, but I'm pretty excited about es6 modules.