Babel meeting - november 19th

[xtuc]

Agenda

• [x] Debugging story (better errors) https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/6856
• [x] Pipeline Operator PR: babel/babel#8289 by @mAAdhaTTah
• [x] Minor output optimizations (defineProperty calls folding): https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/6652#issuecomment-436322239 by @Andarist
• [x] Merged class features public interface https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/8130#discussion_r231754468 by @nicolo-ribaudo/Logan
• [x] Add a new flag to the decorators plugin for initializers? https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/9008#issuecomment-439065180 by @nicolo-ribaudo
• [x] Merge this potential bc or wait till babel 8? https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/8787 by @danez

[xtuc]

cc @babel/babel feel free to add items to the agenda!

[mAAdhaTTah]

Pipeline Operator PR: https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/8289

[Andarist]

Minor output optimizations (defineProperty calls folding): https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/6652#issuecomment-436322239

Would be great to establish if this is something that we want to do in babel in general (more optimized code - in some way, vs more readable code)