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You don't need a .babelrc file in every directory, your coworkers are doing something wrong. Also, in that .babelrc file you can customize the generator behaviour to your heart's content - if your coworkers have chosen bad presets then your issue is with them, not Babel.

I agree that Babel is slow. Hey, there's always Buble: http://buble.surge.sh/, but then you lose a lot of configurability. There's always a trade-off.

And yes, the generator stuff is far more verbose than it needs to be, but because Babel is trying to cover all browsers by default. It's like jQuery. Good news is you can opt out.




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