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> Please stop evolving Ecmascript. A language that doesnt evolve is a dead one. > JavaScript will have gone from a nice simple, elegant language It's neither
by aikah 12y ago
> Please stop evolving Ecmascript.
A language that doesnt evolve is a dead one.
> JavaScript will have gone from a nice simple, elegant language
It's neither nice,nor simple nor elegant.To many WTF,to many edge cases,and a verbose syntax.
The code you are writing today will still run with ES6.
Nobody is forcing you to use new features.
You may like ES5,you may like how one writes ES5 code.That's not my case and the case of many developpers using javascript everyday. These features, we should have had then back in 2007 with ES4.So this isnt even an evolution,this is a catch up.
> C++ 11, incomprehensible to both humans and machines
I prefer devs using the same "incomprehensible" language than having to use 10+ transpilers because devs dont get what they want with javascript.
Again,nobody's forcing you to use ES6 new features,so you shouldnt force people into what you deem "nice,simple and elegant". Devs are forced to use JS one way or another,so let's make it so all devs can at least work with it instead of trying to force everyone into a paradigm everybody is not going to agree with.
And the best is yet to come with structs,guarded types,async/await keywords,more data structures,...