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My point is that you do not need Babel if you plan to target modern browsers anyway.

Many ES6 features are slower than their ES5 counterparts currently. let, const are slower than var, for example.

Huh. What's the reason for that?

> let, const are slower than var, for example.

They aren't slower anymore in V8. Most ES6 features are now about as fast as their ES5 counterparts.

That hasn't been true in WebKit for a while.

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