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by grandalf 3471 days ago
In a nutshell, the js community is doing a great job of moving the language forward, and there is a great deal of cost to be borne by using the oldest version of the language that all browsers support. Browser vendors (in general) are the laggards, but there is an easy enough way to work around them.

ES6 also nudges the code toward a bit more uniformity that can lead to better medium term maintainability.