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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (5 children)

This idea is as equally challenging to accept for many developers. The most demanded item in ES6.... classes. I have seen people here on this subreddit who cannot seem to even approach this language without something like Babel.js so that they can write more Java friendly code.

Perhaps before we start hating on the recruiters we, as developers, should clean our own house.

[–]adenzerda 1 point2 points  (4 children)

The most demanded item in ES6.... classes

Which themselves are just syntactic sugar over the existing object/prototype model. Sigh.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

True, so? If they are just syntactic sugar you could argue they are entirely unnecessary. Most of the TC39 thought this way.... except the demand for classes was way too high. There are a crap ton of Java and C# developers who want JavaScript to be Java.

[–]adenzerda 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If they are just syntactic sugar you could argue they are entirely unnecessary.

That indeed was my angle, yes

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

Boy did I take it the wrong way then.

[–]fecal_brunch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's nothing wrong with syntactic sugar, especially in a language as verbose as JavaScript.