this is an interesting perspective that I don't really understand and hope you will expand on. Which parts of the es6 changes do you feel you need to be an acad

this is an interesting perspective that I don't really understand and hope you will expand on. Which parts of the es6 changes do you feel you need to be an academic to understand? The es5 spec is 6 years old at this point and it feels to me like es6 is taking forever to be implemented. Most of the changes are there to make things more consistent and reduce pitfalls and edge cases - let and const to solve the problems with var, fat arrows make functions cleaner and solve the this binding problem, classes and modules formalize what everyone has been trying to do in JS for years just in different ways. No doubt there's some learning to do, but on the whole it seems like a very conservative and solid list of enhancements.