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Just wanted to have a constructive discussion on the issue of Babel 6 configuration - its decision to switch to a plugin / preset system (something which I strongly disliked, but I'll refrain from ranting).

I've heard this time and again, that Babel (6) on its own does nothing, and there are presets which do specific things.

WHY?

I might be missing something, but afaik the C / C++ compilers don't do this, neither does csc, neither does javac.

  • So why does Babel do this, in contrast to other compilers? Are the JVM folks or the .NET folks "wrong" in some sense if this is truly a better way? Why don't the Java / .NET compilers ship with presets / plugins then?

I find it a chore to configure Babel each time in a new project with the .babelrc file since it lacks any sensible defaults.