Meteor 1.7 and the evergreen dream

More than 80% of Internet users worldwide have access to an “evergreen” web browser that natively supports almost all the latest ECMAScript features and keeps itself updated automatically, which means new language features become available almost as soon as they are standardized. Take a moment to appreciate this new reality, since it has profound consequences for web development. Now that so many ECMAScript features are natively supported in the overwhelming majority of web browsers (and Node), it is increasingly a shame that you can’t just execute modern JavaScript directly, without first compiling it to JavaScript of yesteryear.