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Not at work, but I use either ES6 or Typescript personally.

"All of the syntactic sugar stuff changes the look and feel of the language too much for my tastes."

I think it brings it into line with how the language is being used in production these days. Modules, generators etc make the language more beautiful, powerful and easier to maintain.

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>>> Not at work, but I use either ES6 or Typescript personally.

Not a JS developer, but most of my friends who are have been transitioning to Typescript. The road is bumpy, but they say once you get some syntax stuff down, you're good.

TypeScript is very nice. The one main problem it has is lack of type definitions for third-party modules, some developers find having to "waste time" writing those defs themselves to be quite bothersome.

Typescript gives you an "out" to type checking using the any type. Additionally, most libraries really worth using have .d.ts files floating around the internet somewhere, in DefinitelyTyped or otherwise.

That's all true. It's a chicken-and-egg problem there, though. I've seen several arguments that the language is not worth looking into until more typings become available, and of course those naysayers are not going to write the missing typings.

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