[jtempleton]

FYI, ECMAScript 2015 is also known as ES6.

[bsimpson]

And JavaScript Harmony

[empyrical]

Because of their switch to use a year instead of a version number, do they plan on doing these ES enhancements more often?

[jmcgough]

Yes. Because of how rapidly Javascript is moving, they want it to be more modular in its releases instead of waiting multiple years in between.

[_greim_]

I think that's the plan. Whatever the committee can agree on and ratify by December 2016 will be dubbed "ES 2016" and so on.

[LittleDan]

The plan is to keep releasing them mid-year.

[mcv]

Yes, though as I understand, none of the later ones should be as big as ES6/2015. You can't accumulate that many changes in a single year.

[pluma]

It's a bit like WHAT WG's change of HTML5 to HTML (the "living standard"), but less drastic.