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		bjornjajeja on May 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Babel is used by millions, so why are we running o... You might call it a tanspiler and technically it IS. But the Babel homepage calls it a compiler. In any case, for the plethora of down voters: Babel states: “Use next generation JavaScript, today” At some point next gen == current gen, and therefor given enough stability, Babel becomes obsolete. Folks, donate to Mozilla instead they actually move things forward not backward.

rat9988 on May 11, 2021 [–]

This assumes that javascript has stopped evolving at some point.

bjornjajeja on May 11, 2021 | [–]

Actually, it assumes only that evolution of new features slows down. Once things are _slow enough_ the value of an extra dependency is dramatically reduced.

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