CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability

Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by jashkenas on Monday September 17, 2012 @02:24PM (#4534019)

Most of the bad code examples in this post are taken from the CoffeeScript compiler itself. For that I have to say "mea culpa". There's a lot of overly clever and dense bits that have accrued in the compiler over time -- sometimes due to the tangly nature of the codebase, but also sometimes because we tend to use the self-hosted compiler as a test bed for edge cases of combining different language features together.

If you're looking for more regular style, this style guide is a better place to start:

https://github.com/polarmobile/coffeescript-style-guide

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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by lowboy on Monday September 17, 2012 @06:07PM (#4535176)

Perhaps a style guide should be put up at coffeescript.org, or at least linked to.

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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by WickyNilliams on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @03:58PM (#4540171)

I was literally coming here to post this response. It seems like a revolution in (usage of) coffeescript is needed in much the same way Crockford's Good Parts paved the way for writing good javascript.

Note: I'm not saying Crockford was singularly responsible for this, but The Good Parts was certainly well-received and very much popularised for it's opinionated views on the language.

Edit: I mean in terms of coding style, CS itself has already cut out a lot of The Bad Parts of JS

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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by mcgwiz on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @03:08PM (#4539935)

Perhaps a style guide should just be encoded into the compiler.

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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by bicknellr on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @05:36PM (#4540651)

I feel like CoffeeScript is failing at what it's attempting to do if it needs its own style guide.

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