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Re:Interviewing a front-end developer by retrogradeorbit on Thursday January 30, 2014 @06:09AM (#7150026)
What about coffeescript, or clojurescript, or any of the hundreds of other languages compiling to javascript and targeting the browser?
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Re:Interviewing a front-end developer by taude on Thursday January 30, 2014 @07:58AM (#7150370)
If you don't know JavaScript, you're really handicapped using any form of higher-level language wrapper. Coffeescript is syntax sugar. Run into problems or library incompatibility with other components and you don't know JavaScript...well...

BTW, for the record, I've never actually known a coffeescript dev who didn't know JavaScript, too, though.

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Re:Interviewing a front-end developer by randallsquared on Thursday January 30, 2014 @07:38AM (#7150292)
What happens when there's a problem at the interface between your favorite compiles-to-javascript language and javascript? If you don't know javascript, how are you going to debug and/or fix that? I've never used coffeescript or clojurescript, so maybe they're so thin that this never happens?
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Re:Interviewing a front-end developer by joshuacc on Thursday January 30, 2014 @10:01AM (#7150972)
It would be pretty unusual for a CoffeeScript developer to not know JavaScript as well.
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