2013-3-30
Some recent activity from active contributors regarding ES6 proposals threaten to undermine its acceptance from the community at large.
ES6 proposals include the fat arrow, destructured assignment, splat args, let/block scope, class syntax, class-based inheritance, setters/getters with export, the module loader syntax, weak maps, weak events, @symbols, and so forth.
That is a lot for a community user of the language to comprehend. It is a lot for a single iteration of any project.
The sheer amount of change is at root of the confusion apparent even among the es-discuss mailing list ~ [see this conversation for an example] (https://twitter.com/kangax/status/315863525899780096 ""that was removed from the spec", "I thought it was back in", "it's on the table", "'on the table' does not mean 'in the spec'"").