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Fun things about ES6
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What is ES6?

  • ES6 is the newest version of the ECMAScript standard.
  • It is the first major update from the ES5 standard that was written in 2009.
  • Updates to JavaScript implementations are currently underway.

What is Transpilation and how does it relate to ES6?

  • Because ES6 standards have not yet been fully implemented, transpilers are used to translate and compile ES6 to ES5.
  • Babel is a transpiler which by default only translates

Looking at the ES6 Features link below, discuss one update from ES5 and if it seems useful/superfluous

  • A lot of features seem really nice in ES6.
  • Coming from Ruby, string interpolation is really nice to have, especially for code readability.
  • I like the implementation of generators in the context of JS. Generators make expensive calculations a little more lightweight which is nice.
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