[POLL]: It is acceptable to break backward compatibility (in smallish ways) in the language to move JavaScript forward.
What about a significant breaking update that's opt-in with "use newstuff" or somesuch?
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We did "use strict", it's a useless expression so (a) dangerous if forks runtime semantics (it did)+
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because doubles testing burden (real sites broke); (b) no mo modes, combinatorial mess.
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