I also thought this looked crazy the first time I saw it.

I feel like ES6+ has jumped the shark in a bunch of ways. Adding new language features can be nice, and shorthand syntax is sometimes convenient, but JS now has a bunch of inconsistent rules about what you can and can’t do syntactically.

These make for neato script tricks to impress your programmmer friends (“wait you can do THAT?!) but I think it has mostly just made the language harder to read.

But don’t worry we have build tools to fix it that will pick a single syntax for your team! /s