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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by btipling on Sunday March 31, 2013 @10:51AM (#5468767)
I'm going to just always flag CoffeeScript libraries that get posted with a .js extention. It is too much effort to put into looking at something only to find out it's not what you thought it was. I don't look at Clojure or Rails posts because I am not interested in them, but somehow I just can't avoid CoffeeScript. So I'm flagging.
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by jashkenas on Sunday March 31, 2013 @11:05AM (#5468818)
Gee, that's a bit intolerant, isn't it? Do you similarly flag all Clojure and Rails posts on HN, because you're just not interested?
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by btipling on Sunday March 31, 2013 @11:22AM (#5468868)
No, because they don't pretend to be something I'm interested in.
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by jclevy on Sunday March 31, 2013 @11:55AM (#5468988)
But would my project Chocolate interest you if its source code was written directly in javascript?
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by btipling on Sunday March 31, 2013 @12:04PM (#5469019)
Your project is interesting, and you put a great deal of work into it and it is pretty much amazing. I generally don't care about what language an app I use was written in. What has gotten under my skin is the naming of things that are not JavaScript yet still get a .js extension.

I'm actually sorry that all of your hard work is buried under a discussion about the .js extension. I just felt the need to vent as it keeps happening. Your demo is very impressive.

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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by jclevy on Sunday March 31, 2013 @12:16PM (#5469060)
Thank you. Chocolate is the project name, but I had to add something at the end to create a web site and a visible github project. So js was the shortest and closest meaningfull suffix that came to my mind.
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by btipling on Sunday March 31, 2013 @01:28PM (#5469364)
For what it's worth there's already Chocolat.app which is a text editor for Macs. :/
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by niggler on Sunday March 31, 2013 @12:07PM (#5469031)
I wonder if the .js extension should be dropped from names. 'Chocolate' would probably be a better name than 'chocolatejs'
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by MatthewPhillips on Sunday March 31, 2013 @12:17PM (#5469067)
It's the standard naming for JavaScript libraries, just like C libraries tend to be named libfoo
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by jclevy on Sunday March 31, 2013 @10:58AM (#5468786)
I understand. I'm sorry for that.
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by irickt on Sunday March 31, 2013 @12:26PM (#5469105)
Really? It's not about the language. It's about the runtime.
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Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework by calgaryeng on Sunday March 31, 2013 @12:12PM (#5469050)
You have first world problems my friend.
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