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		fauigerzigerk on April 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its R... >You can use arrow functions for literally every function you write other than generators But not for every function I read, and that is the problem with all backward compatible fixes to programming languages. You're just piling on more (sometimes better) features on top of all the old brokenness and everybody has to know all of it.

ng12 on April 19, 2017 | [–]

Yeah but that's in no way unique to Javascript. Java developers still have to deal with type erasure due to decisions that were made 20 years ago.

jakelazaroff on April 19, 2017 | [–]

True. I'm not trying to say JavaScript is or was great, just that ES6 is pretty clearly not a step backward (which was the original claim).

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