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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by seanalltogether on Thursday October 10, 2013 @12:33PM (#6528576)
"If adding a build step is an extra hassle, this might be the wrong profession."

That's a very railsy answer. The strength of the web is that you don't need to run a build at all. I think that's the fundamental dislike of Coffeescript. I've worked on so many html frontends where a build process wasn't necessary to accomplish our job, and if someone tried to introduce one for the sake of coffescript it would simply be an annoyance.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by winslow on Thursday October 10, 2013 @01:56PM (#6529126)
I'm currently using CoffeeScript for a big project on the web and the build step that I have automatically watches my coffee files and recompiles on a new change. Group that with using LiveReload and you have an auto recompile and reloading application with no additional manual build step.
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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by XorNot on Thursday October 10, 2013 @01:13PM (#6528845)
It's also that you lose any ability to step-debug at the moment. You still need to know Javascript to debug Coffeescript by and large.

That mental context-switch overhead is the whole driving philosophy behind NodeJS in the first place - don't switch languages so often. CS/JS is enough of a change that the overhead is not insignificant.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by lowboy on Thursday October 10, 2013 @04:15PM (#6529772)
Eh, I don't find switching back and forth to be that problematic in terms of context switching. That's because CS is very similar to JS in everything but syntax. Which is also why a solid JS background is almost essential when writing CS.
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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by winslow on Thursday October 10, 2013 @01:54PM (#6529105)
This is no longer true. You can debug CoffeeScript in web browsers now with source maps. Yes you may need to dig into JS for a more severe bug but most of the stuff is debug-able in source maps.
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