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A comment on Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript. Parent comment

Re:Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript by nikcub on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @12:40PM (#2443038)
The reasons for writing C over asm are very different to writing CS over JS.

For one, CS doesn't abstract away any platform dependance in JS - it is syntactic.

which is fine, just that your argument isn't.

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Re:Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript by philwelch on Thursday April 14, 2011 @11:06AM (#2447079)
"The reasons for writing C over asm are very different to writing CS over JS."

I didn't say they weren't--I just said that generated or compiled standards-compliant code is still standards compliant.

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