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A doom dependent on full adoption of ES6 could easily be a decade out, to be fair. There aren't, as far as I know, any browsers that expose ES6 without non-standard compile/runtime flags, and we have to wait until there's enough adoption that the % of people using pre-ES6 browsers is negligible.

Hell, I'm still waiting for Array::map to be dependable.

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MDN publishes correct polyfills for ES5 Array functions like map, reduce and forEach. I think it's worth shipping those and using them now.

Ultimately though, wouldn't you want to use a js preprocessor that lets you write full spec ES6 and compiles down to ES4 or whatever your runtime target is? That's available today, and it doesn't confuse the meaning of class, fat arrow, variable scoping, etc.

Hell, I'm still waiting for [1, 2, 3].indexOf(2) to be dependable ;)

It's not?

Not in older versions of IE.

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