CoffeeScript is Afrikaans JavaScript

Re:CoffeeScript is Afrikaans JavaScript by raganwald on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @10:02AM (#3561992)

I don't think all features are "just" syntactic sugar:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/04/writing-programs-for-peo...

Everyone parrots the line that programs should be written for people to read. I agree, and that's exactly why I use CoffeeScript: All of the devs in our office read and write JavaScript fluently, but code written in CoffeeScript is easier to read than code written in JavaScript.

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Re:CoffeeScript is Afrikaans JavaScript by karterk on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @11:18AM (#3562342)

> but code written in CoffeeScript is easier to read than code written in JavaScript.

To be fair, that's a personal preference as well. For e.g. some people prefer reading code with symbols (&&, ||) than English keywords (and, or). Also, I have seen people from a C/C++ or Java background find JS easier to read than CS.

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Re:CoffeeScript is Afrikaans JavaScript by mseebach on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @10:20AM (#3562067)

Yes, certainly. But the issue was whether these features makes CoffeeScript inherently more readable than JavaScript to a Ruby developer.

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