No one says "Let's write ECMAScript for portability". If someone did, I would probably be writing about that too.

Hey guys... I have a wonderful idea.

... Let's write ECMAScript for portability.

	▲	gaigalas 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Can you imagine? Using that fancy new gen JavaScript today? Oh wait, that's exactly babel's headline! It's just so old now that people don't need to say what it does. Actually funny that the spec drift got solved by polyfills and transpilers.