[WorldMaker]

Given ES2016's intended goal to remove a lot of the global interconnected nature of the language (let/const over classic var; module scopes), it seems clear why ES2016 "over-corrected" and only supports the gensym-style unique symbols and exporting them at the module level if they need to be reused. (From whence known symbols like Symbol.iterator exist.)

I've seen strawman proposals for ES to also support some form of a global symbol namespace, but after debugging much of the legacy of JS global-happy code and order-of-script-tags bugs I, for one, am happy that none of those strawman proposals are currently favored by the committee.

[v413]

There are global symbols. You use Symbol.for() to either create or retrieve them. E.g. Symbol.for('hello') is available globally through the global registry. It should be noted that an already existing symbol e.g. Symbol('hello') is not the same as Symbol.for('hello') while Symbol.for('hello') === Symbol.for('hello')

[WorldMaker]

Thanks, I had forgot that had made it in after all.