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Re:CoffeeScript. An Outsider Opinion by pdenya on Sunday July 03, 2011 @09:30PM (#2725075)
CoffeeScript has some nice benefits but in my opinion not having to deal close curly braces or add semi colons hardly qualifies as a reason to use one language over another.
Re:CoffeeScript. An Outsider Opinion by nuclearsandwich on Sunday July 03, 2011 @09:41PM (#2725097)
I'm still using Javascript at the end of the day, I'm just doing so via an interface that I find more readable and writeable. I don't see it as much different than letting a minifier optimize my javascript rather than writing it that way by hand.