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I agree. I think a language's determined beauty is by its readability, and the less complexity/clever code the more readable it becomes.

I agree, when I look at the code in his examples, I have to work a lot harder to figure out what's going on. Maybe I'll get used to it, but as I mature in my programming style I strive to write code that others will not have to work hard to understand.

OTOH We've been using some ES6/Babel at work, and I'm really digging the Promise/resolve/reject paradigm.

Yep, I had just submitted a comment making basically the same observation. There's always the clarity vs. conciseness argument in every language evolution process, and compromises made due to compatibility issues, but ECMAScript veered too far towards line noise this round for sure.