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Discussion on: Why JavaScript will always need Transpilers and Polyfills

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Peter Brown

In all honesty, this does not seem like a prudent approach. The better approach is to write for the oldest target that you support. We don't need the latest software libraries to write good codebases. Adding needles dependancies slows overall performance , hampers maintainability and leaves our security beholden to yet another external entity.

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Rohit Dhatrak

Fair point, you don't have to work with the latest features all the time. But the choice will depend on multiple factors so I think there is no right answer.