Regarding JavaScript trailing commas

Re:Regarding JavaScript trailing commas by hillsidefm on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:17PM (#11459717)

Fair enough. Maybe CoffeeScript specifically isn't the answer. But the general idea of compiling neater languages into JavaScript strikes me as a better long-term solution than settling for its current syntactical warts, which are entirely historical accidents.

I do like ES6!

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Re:Regarding JavaScript trailing commas by marcus_holmes on Saturday April 09, 2016 @12:00AM (#11459837)

I think ES6 is the solution. Evolve JS and remove the "warts" instead of introducing new variants.

I'm a big JS fan. I can't stand Coffeescript - it doesn't seem to add anything except changing the syntax to make it easier for Rubyists to understand. Which is fine, I guess, but feels like a personal preference. More like a text editor setting than something anyone should publish their code in.

Same for Typescript, to a certain extent, though I understand the heartfelt desire to have the compiler pick up some of the more common errors.

We run the risk of fragmenting the community by promoting CS and TS - better to evolve JS itself, which is what is happening and it's great.

TL;DR: kill Coffeescript and Typescript, evolve Javascript for the win!

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Re:Regarding JavaScript trailing commas by exception_e on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:21PM (#11459734)

I agree. Language features such as async/await (ES7) are exciting.

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Re:Regarding JavaScript trailing commas by ludamad on Saturday April 09, 2016 @12:56AM (#11459995)

I am excited by async/await but it makes code non-trivially harder to debug. The tools are far from there

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