Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS

Re:Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to m... by sghiassy on Monday June 19, 2017 @06:04PM (#14590798)

Really? Are you sure? If CoffeeScript isn't fully compatible with JS then what is it? I mean at some point it has to go through a JS interpreter to run.

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Re:Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to m... by carc1n0gen on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:48AM (#14604233)

I created a coffee file called list.coffee with:

    var list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];

When I run `coffee list.coffee` I get:

    /home/****/Code/coffee/thing.coffee:1:1: error: reserved word 'var'
    var list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
    ^^^

The coffeescript interpreter is standalone and does not turn it in to JS.

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