ECMAScript 6 In Depth

Part I

ECMAScript is the standardized language

Best known implementation is JavaScript

ECMAScript 6 is a superset of current version

Current version is ECMAScript 5.1 (2011)

Next version is officially ECMAScript 2015

ECMAScript 6 (ES6) mindshare tough to penetrate

ECMAScript 6 is complete

Spec is finalized

Publication in June 2015

Browsers continually implementing features

Fully compliant browser by end of 2015?

Transpile: ES6 -> ES5

ES6 shims

Sourcemaps