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		grrowl on June 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMAScript 2015 Approved Oddly, it would be silly to transpile to ES5 forever. By the time ES6 support is widespread, we'll be transpiling from ES8, and so on.

allannienhuis on June 18, 2015 [–]

yes, but I expect that between feature checking and target platform configuration in the transpilers, virtually all of that will be transparent for the dev.

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