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Re:The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017 by ttty on Saturday May 16, 2020 @08:18AM (#23202783)
I never bought into anything that goes far away from ecmascript. You need to think that any time you distance yourself from the real code, you make a compromise.

Coffescript has very little improvements at a cost (different syntax)

With typescript, it's also a compromise, but the benefit you get it's really good, types.

That's why moving to typescript makes sense, while coffescript not so much.

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Re:The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017 by brlewis on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:34AM (#23203245)
The post you're replying to isn't trying to get you to move to Coffeescript today. It's saying Coffeescript "helped fuel the fire to get JavaScript moving and evolving as a language again."
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