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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by kzahel on Monday September 17, 2012 @02:52PM (#4534190)
That's an unfair hyperbole. CS saves you at most ~30% characters, and that's when omitting every parenthesis possible.

I personally don't get excited by that prospect. Generators would get me excited, though!

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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by kin on Monday September 17, 2012 @06:03PM (#4535148)
well, personally when i converted over i never had to stare at these blocks anymore: } } } });

made code a lot easier to debug. and yes, consistency wasn't the only thing. i would say that converting over has a learning curve sure reading other people's code. but sacrificing readability long term compared to vanilla js? i wouldn't say that. i'm not saying there isn't ambiguity in the beginning but eventually you learn how to not do things in ambiguous ways.

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