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At the very least, if you use Safari for development you won't need to run Babel every time you change something and want to test it, only for release builds or when you want to test on other browsers, which is nice.



Setting up a build watcher in Grunt/Gulp/etc is really worth the time savings, especially if you use Live Reload. I make a change to a file in vim, and the page reloads with the new build.


There are a lot of node/npm modules that aren't ES6 friendly... unless they pull in and shim out cjs/npm modules, then it will still be some time before it's really useful.




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