ECMAScript 2016 (ES7) ** is the **7th edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification

• https://262.ecma-international.org/7.0/

• http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/index.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#ES2016

• https://flaviocopes.com/es2016/

https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/finished-proposals.md

• https://github.com/tc39/proposal-exponentiation-operator

• https://github.com/tc39/Array.prototype.includes

Description

The 7th edition, officially known as ECMAScript 2016 , was finalized in June 2016.

The major standard language features include block-scoping of variables and functions, destructuring patterns (of variables), proper tail calls, exponentiation operator ** for numbers, await, async keywords for asynchronous programming.