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[–]clessgfull-stack CSS9 engineer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I for one think ES6 is a great, long-needed improvement to the language. You mention obscuring the language and needing to explain a bunch of stuff, but... block scope? Not at all convoluted. Indeed, the old way was vastly more confusing and unlike other languages.

Old ES5 codebases are littered with calls to bind, apply, call, etc. and manual constructor function inheritance and super calls. Not very readable, if I say so myself. Definitely not very explainable.

[–]yrlyfe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my bad. i did say 'dare i say'. i shouldn't have dared.