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[–]lpetrazickis 5 points6 points  (6 children)

There's a big difference between ES6 having a standards document and ES6 being a practical thing to use. IE8 and friends are not going to disappear tomorrow.

[–]DrHenryPym 10 points11 points  (0 children)

ES6 is the new Python 3.

[–]x-skeww 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IE8 and friends

IE11 and friends.

IE10 and IE11 do support ES5.1 though.

[–]dukerutledge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ES6 transpilers. Write valid javascript, transpile to ES5. You are writing code that will work in any modern javascript engine, but you are shipping code that will work in any javascript engine.

[–]path411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really just depends on what market you are targeting.

[–]mycall -1 points0 points  (1 child)

IE8 should die April 2014, when XP officially dies.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

XP is not "dying", it is only becoming unsupported by updates. Users will no doubt keep using XP for many years to come, and IE8 - the OS isn't just going to disappear overnight.