Support ES 5.x (or even 6.x)

[antoine-de]

Hi,

do you have plans to support the latest ES version ?

there are quite a lot of changes 😢

I'm willing to give a hand on it but I'm a bit lost on how to do it.

Do we need first to support ES5.x and then ES6.x or can we move to ES6.x directly ?
what's the plan to maintain the retro compatibility ?
how did you do it for ES2.x ?

[benashford]

Regarding backwards compatibility. I think we should make a clean break at some point and declare that version x of rs-es moves the minimum ES version up.

As to when this might happen, probably not soon due to time commitments elsewhere. This is the downside of such a project, mirroring a large API makes such upgrades quite time consuming, other free-form APIs are easier, but without the strong typing. Plus there are other tasks in the queue as well, for example, we're currently using quite an old version of Hyper; which then raises further questions regarding making rs-es futures compatible.