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by quarterto 4865 days ago

  there is little effort into changing this
Yes, nothing at all. https://wiki.mozilla.org/ES6_plans
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ECMAScript 6 is hardly more than a few bandaids layered upon the existing stack of bandages applied to the gaping wound that is JavaScript.

It does not get to the core of the problems with JavaScript. It does not make the breaking changes necessary to truly fix the situation. It gives a false sense of improvement, at best.

Exactly what are the core problems with Javascript in your mind?
That's why I didn't literally said nothing at all, and it's great that there's something going on with the language, but it would be even better if we were to start new language from scratch, rethought for today.
My only worry is how long it'll take for ES6 to get adopted. It's one thing to write a spec and implement it into the compiler yourself...it's another thing to write a spec and wait for several key browsers to implement it.