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As a survey completer, they still don't include ES8 as an option: https://2018.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/overview/

'await' is a game changer for JavaScript: major libraries like Stripe and Hapi are rebuilding their docs too be ES8 based.

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I believe the survey uses ES6 (which officially is named ES2015) to refer to the "current version" of ECMAScript (which I suppose is ES2017).

I don't know if the solution is to include each yearly release of ECMAScript since ES6, or to simply add an "ES.Current" option, which would just be the latest proper release.

Next time I think we'll just drop the ES* item altogether and instead ask developers which JS language features they use directly.

Well yes, that's my point. There's a massive difference between using class and template strings with callbacks or 'then' vs actually using Direct Style with 'await'

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