Re:The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
by choward on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:53PM
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> I truly do not understand why so many jumped from Coffeescript
You clear up your own confusion right here:
> console.log [ i if i % 3 and i % 5, 'fizz' unless i % 3, 'buzz' unless i % 5 ].join '' for i in [ 1 .. 100 ]
And you said:
> I would not publish things like this, though :)
You just did though ;)
> I still use it and still believe I can be more concise and expressive in Coffeescript. Typescript and ES2015 picked up a lot of wonderful things, but I find myself writing a lot less boilerplate in Coffeescript
That boilerplate that you imply hinders conciseness isn't just boilerplate. It's code that helps you automate getting rid of certain classes of bugs. It also in most cases makes the code more readable IMO. And if the problem you are trying to solve is having to type less, I believe that's a job for your editor and tooling.
You clear up your own confusion right here:
> console.log [ i if i % 3 and i % 5, 'fizz' unless i % 3, 'buzz' unless i % 5 ].join '' for i in [ 1 .. 100 ]
And you said:
> I would not publish things like this, though :)
You just did though ;)
> I still use it and still believe I can be more concise and expressive in Coffeescript. Typescript and ES2015 picked up a lot of wonderful things, but I find myself writing a lot less boilerplate in Coffeescript
That boilerplate that you imply hinders conciseness isn't just boilerplate. It's code that helps you automate getting rid of certain classes of bugs. It also in most cases makes the code more readable IMO. And if the problem you are trying to solve is having to type less, I believe that's a job for your editor and tooling.