It does seem a bit of a mixed message to enable this by default while still saying the functionality is experimental. I fear many people will take this as a signal to start using the feature in production, then find a later Node.js update breaks things if the behaviour changes.
The flag --experimental-strip-types has been enabled by default. Only syntax that dont require transformation is allowed.
Syntax that require transformation are enum, namespaces (namespaces containing types only are allowed) and legacy modules.You need to pass the flag --experimental-transform-types to enable it.
Decorators will soon be supported by V8 since they are a stage 3 proposal. We decided not to polyfill it but to wait the V8 relase.
It does seem a bit of a mixed message to enable this by default while still saying the functionality is experimental. I fear many people will take this as a signal to start using the feature in production, then find a later Node.js update breaks things if the behaviour changes.