babel sucks - I never though I could hate something so strongly.<p>Just today I had to deal with the fact that babel wraps ALL your generators in some shit function.<p>Why ? just why ? generation function was supported in browsers longer then the age all the babel maintainers combined.<p>The worst part is I do not use babel myself - I wouldn&#x27;t touch it with a ten foot pole but am forced to use it due to my stupid cowokers writing everything using babel - ( why does babel need .babelrc file ?? - is babel such a prominent part of your life that you need .rc files ?? and why does the .rc file need to be specified in every freaking folder ! )<p>1) babel&#x27;s docs are also terrible<p>2) The people maintaining babel seem to actively market babel and then at the same time ignore questions and requests for better docs from the community.<p>3) Slowest compiler I have had the pleasure of dealing with - my babel watch process consumes a grand total of 150 MB of memory !!<p>Edit - had to follow HN guidelines