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The State of ES5 on the Web (philipwalton.com)
27 points by robin_reala 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Wow, first Walton post in 2 years.

TL;DR ES6 is ubiquitous; library authors should only transpile new features (shipped <30 months) per Web Platform's "Baseline Widely Available"; sites which do need ES5 should bite the bullet and transpile `node_modules` despite the build time




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