Re:CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles to JavaScri...
by jashkenas on Friday December 25, 2009 @10:37AM
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Yeah, I think you're right about the other operators -- I've just pushed a commit that puts them back to +=, -=, ||=, and so on. Thanks.
Underscore is going to stay unrelated, but there's no reason that you couldn't use it from CoffeeScript, to great effect.
Now, add a minifying pass after compilation for deployment and you'll have created a dream platform for client-side scripting (-:
edit: another suggestion since one of your goals is terseness: you may want to alias "prototype" to "proto".
edit2: as much as I like the column for asignment (present in both JS itself and Ruby 1.9), I'm not really fan of the +:, -:, etc. combined operators, at least in a math context. &&: and ||: look fine though so it's perhaps a matter of getting used to it.
edit3: I just discover your underscore.js library. Do you plan to include it in the CoffeScript standard lib?
edit4: oh... And I hope you like the color of this brand new bikeshed I just built in front of your coffe shop ;-)