Re:Why the Rampant Fanboyism Around CoffeeScript Worries Me
by learc83 on Sunday September 11, 2011 @10:42PM
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I like the idea of CoffeeScript. But so far, for me, it's just not better enough for me to use it over plain JavaScript. The reason I use C over assembly is b/c there is such a HUGE difference. If C were only marginally better I wouldn't bother with it either.
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Re:Why the Rampant Fanboyism Around CoffeeScript Worries Me
by chime on Sunday September 11, 2011 @10:53PM
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What kind of JS projects do you have? CS is certainly overkill for form validation but if you have 50+ JS files that all need to talk to each other, CS can help make things cleaner and succinct.
Re:Why the Rampant Fanboyism Around CoffeeScript Worries Me
by learc83 on Monday September 12, 2011 @12:10AM
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Don't think I've got anything quite to the level of 50+ files, but I've done some smaller scale javascript only applications where the only thing done backend was a restful database wrapper.
I agree that it can help a bit, but I've tried it, and I didn't notice enough of a productivity increase to bother adding a compiler step.
I'm the type who would use and occasionally has used assembly (this was embedded stuff mind you), so I might not be representative.