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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by lowboy on Thursday October 10, 2013 @11:59AM (#6528393)
>It also bugs the fuck out of me that CoffeeScript projects frequently end up being given a *.js extension

If a project compiles down to Javascript and is intended to be used as such, a .js name suits it regardless of the source language.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by leokun on Friday October 11, 2013 @12:14AM (#6531377)
Well since you can compile python, clojure, etc etc to JavaScript I guess the .js extension is meaningless. In my opinion it isn't at all OK, because a .js extension means that the code is in JavaScript, so that I can look at it, and maybe contribute. I'm not interested in CoffeeScript widgetmajigs that turn CoffeeScript into JavaScript. Use .coffee or maybe CoffeeScript just can't stand on its own. Maybe it's just riding JS's coattails and the moment it separates it becomes abandoned.
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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by regularfry on Thursday October 10, 2013 @12:33PM (#6528575)
For the project, possibly. Not for an individual source file. That's bananas.
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