[abritinthebay]

> if it clears TC39 (a tall order, to be honest), won't land in a spec for half a decade at least I would bet.

Given current speed of iteration I think you can cut that in half. The key will be implementations - Babel plugins help with that.

[bterlson]

The current speed of iteration means you get updates in smaller batches rather than more throughput. Still important, but it's not like we're letting proposals bake less. Note how so far we've only gotten two big new features post-ES6 - async functions and async generators. Further, some features (e.g. decorators, bind operator) have had babel plugins for years and yet hasn't shipped in a spec.

[abritinthebay]

True. Mostly due to hold ups in the Stage 3 — Stage 4 process I think