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by wrs 851 days ago
Good to know we have completely run out of ideas and TC39 can disband as soon as they get through with that proposal! /s
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New features will come, but my point is that the major non-standard features most people use that is not implemented in most browsers are better support for types and JSX.

Just look at the history of 6to5, babel, pony/polyfills, different build systems, different module systems, multiple different syntaxes like coffeescript, multiple different type systems. IMO we are much closer to the browser now and hopefully close to getting "normal developers" to write code that runs verbatim in a "normal browser". The outliers will always be there (Svelte, elm, etc.) but for mainstream code I hope to get back to shipping the code you wrote.

I hope that we get more features from TC39 after that. I think generators and asyncIterators are underused currently. Things like pattern matching sounds interesting to get into the JS ecosystem.