If you're using a transpiler anyway, who really cares if you have native support for the language features?
I've been wondering the same thing. Surely the only exciting new language features are the ones that can't be polyfilled?
Native support means it can be smaller and faster, sure. But I don't think you can blame web bloat on Javascript's lack of built-in modules. Web bloat is caused by an arms race of advertising and tracking plugins. I don't care much about making those more efficient, I just want the advertising and tracking stripped out.
Native async functions are nice for the better debugging support (chrome will give you full stack traces that are as nice as ones from synchronous code).
I've been wondering the same thing. Surely the only exciting new language features are the ones that can't be polyfilled?
Native support means it can be smaller and faster, sure. But I don't think you can blame web bloat on Javascript's lack of built-in modules. Web bloat is caused by an arms race of advertising and tracking plugins. I don't care much about making those more efficient, I just want the advertising and tracking stripped out.