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Anyone have any idea when destructuring assignment is going to make it into v8?

That is one of the features my colleagues most cite as justification for using babel.js (I wouldn't mind destructuring assigment either). I would love to be able to avoid transpilation since it adds overhead from making out our toolchain more complex and makes debugging more difficult because stack traces and line numbers don't necessarily match up.

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It's in the works: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=811

You can tell by the number of CLs that a lot of work has been done already but there are a few more still in progress. It's probably still a few weeks out.

Disclaimer: I don't speak for the V8 team, I'm just an interested onlooker.

On the front end you can get babel to work with sourcemaps fairly easily depending on what build tool you use.

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