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@wallhackio @vaporeon_ ES6 was not more impactful than ES5 in terms of the fundamental behaviours of the language, as ES5 added strict mode, getters and setters, low‐level things like Object.getPrototype, Object.setPrototype, and Object.defineProperty, and so forth. Most ES6 code can be transpiled into equivalent ES5 code, whereas ES5 introduced fundamental concepts around writability, enumerability, an access which could not be ported back to ES3. However, most programmers do not take advantage of the unique qualities of JavaScript introduced by ES5 and ES6 introduced more syntactic sugar for common operations. In addition, when ES6 came out, people created transpilers back to ES5 so the ES6/ES5 distinction was more firmly established in people’s minds.

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ The organization is now called Ecma (not an acronym) but the specification is still called ECMAScript (with that capitalization) for historical reasons. Deno is currently suing Oracle, the current owners of the JavaScript trademark, to get their trademark invalidated.

@wallhackio es6 is a decade old

@akjcv@types.pl not sure the desire for everything to line up nicely with easy math and simple explanations is, in fact, intelligent

@wallhackio @aescling sure

@akjcv@types.pl apparently his brother has corrected the narrative and told WGN “He was always a Sox fan.”

@wallhackio lifehack: take naps at work

@Satsuma @wallhackio stuffed flatbread emojo is not NECESSARILY stuffed with falafel

but falafel emojo is always falafel

@Satsuma @wallhackio no, that is the explanation for 🧆