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Babel contributor here. It's great to hear how many people are already deploying projects using Babel, and even better to see how fast ES6 is getting adopted. M
by thejameskyle 11y ago
Babel contributor here. It's great to hear how many people are already deploying projects using Babel, and even better to see how fast ES6 is getting adopted. Many people are still stuck in an ES3 world... (shakes head)
If anyone has any questions, feel free to ping me or stop by our support chat[1].
[1] https://gitter.im/babel/babel https://gitter.im/babel/babel
- striking 11y agoIs there anything wrong with being "stuck in an ES3 world"?
- thejameskyle 11y agoI mean if you never want to improve the language I guess not. The point was that ES5 adoption was really weak at best, and ES6 has been very strong.
- frik 11y agoJS5 adoption was really strong. It was hyped with "JavaScript - the Good parts", and it was lean. Typescript inspired ES6 with syntactic sugar "class" keyword in a language that has prototype based inheritance ...hmm we will see. I dislike the recent forced influence of Microsoft to JavaScript.
- zerocrates 11y agoJavaScript: The Good Parts predated ES5, and certainly predated actual adoption. IE didn't support basically any of ES5 until 2011 with IE 9, and, for example, Safari didn't support bind() until 2012. Strict mode didn't appear until IE 10, Firefox 4, and Chrome 13. Those dates aren't so great even if you ignore that you'd often have to support the earlier versions for a significant amount of time anyway.