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If we want to use ECMAScript 6 as app developers, but still want to run our software on old browsers, we only have one option: compile ECMAScript 6 to ECMAScript 3 (possibly ECMAScript 5 in 1–2 years). The precedent is obvious: CoffeeScript has been doing this since December 2010. With source maps [3], you can even debug its code in the browser – the JavaScript it has been compiled to is hidden from you. Several ECMAScript 6 features have been influenced by CoffeeScript.

Why not use CoffeeScript and be done with it?

I use CoffeeScript at work on a big enterprisey project for 3M.

What I find is, the language is not at all well thought out. They tried to jam Ruby concepts into JavaScript, and it often shows.

TypeScript, on the other hand, I'm really liking. And even though it was designed by Anders Hejlsberg (C#), they stayed true to JavaScript, rather than force C# concepts into JavaScript. It's really a well-done language.

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