Christian Heilmann

How about we make ES6 the new baseline?

Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 at 8:58 am

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Yesterday night, far too late, I wrote a long article here about making ES6 the new baseline of the web. It wasn’t a good article. It made a lot of assumptions, and it wasn’t thought through. That’s why I removed it.

I am right now writing my keynote for BrazilJS on this same topic and put more thought into that. And here is the recording of this keynote:

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