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Re:Announcing CoffeeScript 2 by rapind on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:40PM (#15279882)
I personally can't stand jsx, and coffeescript makes it so much nicer to avoid when using React. It's almost like haml / slim / jade / pug if you know what I mean.

I wrote a comparison about it a couple years ago: http://rapin.com/blog/2015/02/03/reactjs-with-coffeescript/

I'm not doing much react these days (cough elm), but I think it's still mostly relevant.

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Re:Announcing CoffeeScript 2 by cies on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:58AM (#15285208)
Elm... And not to forget PureScript... and to a lesser extend ReasonML (by which you can still use React and JSX)... and Haskell/GHCJS. There are quite a lot of ways to seek refuge from both type scarcity and the "semicolon" line noise that was mentioned.

Here some benchmarks for several of the FWs that are popular in these languages (Elm has the FW built-in, ReasonML-React is missing but should be close to React.js).

https://medium.com/@saurabhnanda/benchmarks-fp-languages-lib...

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Re:Announcing CoffeeScript 2 by desireco42 on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:14AM (#15284765)
Yeah, Elm is the bomb! Had to grin when I saw your comment. I am really happy with this refactor of Coffeescript but Elm is what I do.
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