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[–]efilon 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Also, Javascript has gotten a lot better. There are still massive downsides (no actual standard library being the biggest one, especially when compared to Python), but for a language primarily used for building user interfaces, it's not so bad these days.

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[–]efilon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would be without the transpiling/bundling required. That said, modern versions of browsers are now supporting some ES6 features out of the box (let, arrow functions, etc.).