Re:Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after...
by jashkenas on Monday February 27, 2012 @06:22PM
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For better or for worse, not so "tiny, tiny" anymore: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/02/08/language-rankings-2-20...
Re:Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after...
by eldude on Monday February 27, 2012 @06:36PM
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I wonder how much of CoffeeScript's prevalence on Github can be contributed to existing projects ported from JavaScript. Either way it's not a particularly important point as CoffeeScript is a "dialect" as everyone likes to say and not a language, so this will likely always more or less be the case, surprising nonetheless.
Come on, what kind of percentage are we talking about here? Tiny. Absolutely tiny.
Take ten minutes right now and read through the CoffeeScript reference-- poof, you learned it. It is just JavaScript.
Well, you haven't learned it unless you memorised absolutely every aspect of it, which you're unlikely to do on a first read. And it isn't "just" JavaScript- it has significant whitespace, different object notation, etc. etc.
Don't get me wrong, I've started using CoffeeScript and I like it. But it's a tiny, tiny minority language. There are a ton of JavaScripters out there that haven't learnt it because they don't need or want it. That's their choice.