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Re:The Opa Framework for JavaScript by lux on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @12:28PM (#5900251)
From their site, they say that "Opa generates and is fully compatible with standard JavaScript code" so it's really no different than preprocessors like CoffeeScript. So the tagline seems acceptably accurate IMO.

And is it really that odd that they've targeted Mongo to start with? Meteor has done the same thing.

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Re:The Opa Framework for JavaScript by Torn on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @01:32PM (#5900702)
Yeah I'm wondering what the differences between this and Meteor is.
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Re:The Opa Framework for JavaScript by pepijndevos on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @03:43PM (#5901524)
http://blog.opalang.org/2012/04/one-web-app-one-language.htm...

As far as I understand, Opa has 2 killer features over Meteor: Type inference and "location inference".

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Re:The Opa Framework for JavaScript by zura on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @03:19AM (#5904144)
While type inference is nice, I'd still prefer to mark locations explicitly.
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