Re:Civet: A Superset of TypeScript
by lgas on Monday October 21, 2024 @08:00PM
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I think everyone mostly agrees that CoffeeScript was a dead end, but I think it drove at lot of innovation at the time. Hopefully Civet can do the same, even if it ends up being another dead end.
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CoffeScript was really good at driving innovation in JavaScript. The arrow operator, string literals, and for...in/for...of seemed to be driven specifically from CoffeeScript's innovations.
Almost all of these were features of other mainstream PLs at the time, so it's questionable whether JS really borrowed them from CS or directly from those others. Especially since the latter is clearly true for some other features such as async/await.
What makes Civet more likely to drive that innovation than TC39 proposals themselves?