Re:CoffeeScript 2.0 Beta Released
by 40_pending on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:33PM
(#14128876)
from the link:
CoffeeScript’s intent, however, was never to be a superset of JavaScript. One of the guiding principles of CoffeeScript has been simplicity: not just removing JavaScript’s “bad parts,” but providing a cleaner, terser syntax that uses less punctuation and enforces indentation, to make code easier to read and reason about. Increased clarity leads to increased quality, and fewer bugs. This benefit of CoffeeScript remains, even in an ES2015+ world.
so, it's not really about "CoffeeScript's functionality" but more it's "style".
Re:CoffeeScript 2.0 Beta Released
by moomin on Monday April 17, 2017 @09:54AM
(#14130851)
Truth is, though, if you're going to pay the transpilation tax (and it's lower than many still seem to think), there's just better options: TypeScript, Flow, ClojureScript, PureScript. A nicer syntax was never that interesting.
CoffeeScript’s intent, however, was never to be a superset of JavaScript. One of the guiding principles of CoffeeScript has been simplicity: not just removing JavaScript’s “bad parts,” but providing a cleaner, terser syntax that uses less punctuation and enforces indentation, to make code easier to read and reason about. Increased clarity leads to increased quality, and fewer bugs. This benefit of CoffeeScript remains, even in an ES2015+ world.
so, it's not really about "CoffeeScript's functionality" but more it's "style".