Things have come a long way in the past year, since this conversation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080

Some of the interesting recent features include executable class bodies, extended regular expressions, functions with default arguments, and YAML-style object literals.

Thanks for all the great suggestions and patches (almost a thousand Github issues, with many thousands of comments). The language has been very much a community driven project, and hopefully it reflects some significant part of the hard-earned wisdom of JavaScripters.