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I never called him an idiot, I just called him out for not researching at all before posting. His understanding of Javascript has not been updated in at least 3 years based on the fact that he called ES6 ESNext, even though ES6 has been released for almost 3 yars.

There's also two different compilers for C, but it's not considered complicated to get started running a C program.

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I wasn’t referring specifically to ES6 when I said ESNext, I was referring to the ever-evolving “this willl be addressed in the next ES release, just add ESxxx as a flag to the zillion build systems and you’ll be good to go,” as well as simultaneously referencing the ES module system.

My post was not intended to be taken literally. It was a rant, I’m sorry for the lack of precision and effort. (Not being sarcastic.)

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