Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS Languages

Re:Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and oth... by wisty on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @03:21AM (#2863253)

I agree. Have a look at hallo (a really basic inline editor). The coffeescript (https://github.com/bergie/hallo/blob/master/examples/hallo.j...) is 236 lines, including about 60 lines of comments. The javascript is 208 lines, with no comments, and extremely clean (https://github.com/bergie/hallo/blob/master/examples/hallo.j...).

I think the big advantage of coffeescript is it gets rid of the whole "implicit global variable" thing. It's not a completely new language (like pyjamas - a python-js converter) just bit of syntactic sugar, which happens to make mistakes a little harder.

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Re:Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and oth... by bergie on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @03:44AM (#2863294)

Hi, author of Hallo here. Thanks for the mention!

Major reason for the way Hallo is commented is because I'm using Docco for API docs: http://bergie.github.com/hallo/docs/hallo.html

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