On: ES6: The features I'm most excited about

[chjj]

ES6 is a mixed bag for me.

I'm against block scope in a way. It's semi-useful, but it's just sugar. So many features of ES6 seem to be designed for people who don't want to bother learning javascript: classes, block scope, arrow syntax, etc. It's just trying to shoehorn javascript into the template every other language follows when javascript is not every other language.

That being said, I like iterators, weak maps, typed arrays, TCO, and so on.

[Kudos → chjj]

Fat arrows are increasingly becoming one of my favourite additions.

No more `function() {}.bind(this);` since `() => {};` is equivalent. It makes it clearer for the reader that the code block inherits scope.