Comment Aside from Microsoft's history.... (Score 4, Interesting) 488
...theirs seems like the right approach. It is certainly a better one than Dart.
They've gone out of their way to be as compatible as possible, and really are making it practical for people to adopt the upcoming standards earlier.
I really don't see what about this to get so up in arms about. Javascript does need improvements, and this is the best approach to that I've seen so far.