My response to "CoffeeScript means giving up on JavaScript"

Re:My response to "CoffeeScript means giving up on JavaScript" by Legion on Sunday November 06, 2011 @02:43PM (#3203598)

There's no real comparison between CoffeeScript->JavaScript and Ruby->C.

Ruby doesn't have any necessary relation to C. Case in point: JRuby. The underlying language is just an implementation detail to provide an environment for executing Ruby code.

CoffeeScript has no executable environment. It is purely syntactic sugar for generating JavaScript code that gets executed in a JS environment (which itself is implemented in C or C++).

CoffeeScript is more comparable to GWT.

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Re:My response to "CoffeeScript means giving up on JavaScript" by aledalgrande on Sunday November 06, 2011 @07:22PM (#3204402)

Agree. Using Ruby and Coffeescript. I'd say if you want to use Coffeescript well, because you like the syntax, you'd have to know Javascript and which Javascript is generated by every Coffeescript word.

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