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If you've been itching to take advantage of the wealth of features offered by ECMAScript 6, aka JavaScript 6, but you're tired of waiting for browsers and runtime engines to get fully caught up, there's a potential solution.

6to5 is a transpiler that transforms ECMAScript 6 code into completely backward-compatible ECMAScript 5 code, with support for ES6's most notable features, including arrow notation, classes, template strings, the "let" and "const" assignment, and constructs.

6to5 also preserves the readability of existing code so that the results are readable on their own terms and not the product of the UglifyJS minifier.

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