[untog]

> the ramifications of what they are doing

Which are? And why is "no new" a benefit?

IMO it's a good thing that you can write JS in the way you write other languages. It makes it a lot easier for developers to get going with it.

[tonyedgecombe]

I'm trying to learn modern JavaScript at the moment, as well as getting to grips with prototypes I now have additional class syntax to learn and understand.

I've gone from learning one way of doing things to two, how is that easier to get going with?

[always_good]

Because now there's one way instead of everyone bringing their own createClass/inherits implementation.

Also, prototypical classes like `function User` are now rare in my experience going forward.

[smokeyj]

> Because now there's one way instead of everyone bringing their own

In theory. In reality there's everyone bringing their own plus one more.

I think the appeal of JS is that it's a universal runtime, not anything about the language itself. I really wish syntactic changes would be left to transpilation.. because that's what every JS developer is doing anyways.