ECMAScript 6
ECMAScript 6 revision took a long time to finish and was finally accepted on June 17, 2015. ES6 features are slowly becoming part of major browsers and server technologies. It is possible to use transpilers to compile ES6 to ES5 and use the code on environments that do not yet support ES6 completely (we will discuss transpilers in detail later).
ES6 substantially upgrades JavaScript as a language and brings in very exciting syntactical changes and language constructs. Broadly, there are two kinds of fundamental changes in this revision of ECMAScript, which are as follows:
- Improved syntax for existing features and editions to the standard library; for example, classes and promises
- New language features; for example, generators
ES6 allows ...
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