What’s New in ES2019
Honest question, not meant to be inflammatory.<p>If we still need to target es5 4 years later, and transpilation is standard practice, why bother? Is the evolution of JS not directed in practice by the authors of Babel and Typescript? If no one can confidently ship this stuff for years after, what’s the incentive to even bother thinking about what is official vs a Babel supported proposal.<p>I like the idea of idiomatic JS with powerful modern features, but in practice every project I’ve seen seems to use a pretty arbitrary subset of the language, with different ideas about best practices and what the good parts are.