It wasn't my goal to take a shot at Eloquent Javascript. As I said, it's my first recommendation to any newbie learning Javascript, and an absolutely top-notch

It wasn't my goal to take a shot at Eloquent Javascript. As I said, it's my first recommendation to any newbie learning Javascript, and an absolutely top-notch text. > It will be years before anyone tries using ES6 features in > JavaScript and expects most browsers to understand them. I dispute that. Many ES.next features are already implemented in popular browsers[1]. [1] http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/