Comment by Denny Trebbin on "Do you think we need to use Browserify or Webpack when ES6 modules come out?"

Yes of course! Because we gain a lot of benefits while bundle/package our libraries/packages and stuff.

npm doesn't install peer dependencies anymore
the left-pad gate taught us to not rely on npm i on a project initialisation.
Developers coming from user languages with different packages managers complain about how much HDD space npm consumes. Having a 3TB HDD in a $500 machine and yet still complain about 100mb projects ;-) We can make them shut by using browserify/webpack/rollup and publish our single binary to npm with the minimal size possible. No additional packages required downloading.
Downloading a single binary from npm is faster than downloading many dependencies and compile or link binaries to node_modules/.bin folder
Executing a single binary is faster than dynamically follow a bunch of import commands
And of course, our binary is heavily optimized too - dead code elimination, inlining code, minified variable, function and class names, etc.

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