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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Platforms are competitions along many coincident aspects. The role of language committees in the web platform is to reduce the price of common functionality by expanding syntax and library support. This was what we did with Promises and `async`/`await`, classes, and much else in ES6.
The idea that transpilers are somehow *good*, rather than a necessary evil whose use should be discouraged through a rate of progress that continually obsoletes them is *wild*.