JS classes are not “just syntactic sugar”

• WHATWG HTML Standard

  137 7,710 9.4 HTML

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Looking at extending for another example. It requires the Reflect API to do properly, which, you guessed it, is not in ES5 either.

• proposal-private-fields-in-in

  3 29 2.8 HTML

  Discontinued EcmaScript proposal to provide brand checks without exceptions

  

I believe this was true, but it is becoming increasingly untrue as the spec gives more and more abilities and semantics to classes. Like, as you say, private fields, and more on the way.

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• babili

  30 4,379 0.0 JavaScript

  :scissors: An ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain (beta)

  

To give you a taste, this is what babel transpiles to, but alas it requires the Reflect API, so it's not suitable as a ES5-only solution. It also incorrectly throws on that last console.log().

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