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Re:My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't De... by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:19PM (#38002229)
coffeescript was an obvious deadend at the time it was created.

The only thing that could have saved (maybe) is better tooling but the community had no interest in it (who knows why). Rust feels like this too.

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Re:My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't De... by e12e on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:35PM (#38006624)
If I remember correctly, the first version of coffee script was quite sane, but the second version was completely different, and IMNHO much worse?

I think the initial version was a moderate enhancement on js, fixing some things like global scope etc?

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