Make tsc --init generate default target to ES6 or higher

[Jack-Works]

Search Terms

tsc --init default target ES5 ES6

Suggestion

When running tsc --init, let the tsconfig has es6 or higher target.

Use Cases

It's not common to have to use es5 nowadays

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My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

[lloydjatkinson]

Any plans for the team to implement this change? It's absurd tsc -init defaults to "target": "es2016" and the rest still.

[RyanCavanaugh]

Can you clarify what's absurd? Just calling something names doesn't help us understand what's bad about it.