Replace CoffeeScript with ES6

Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by matthewmacleod on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:50PM (#8970223)

I'm not sure that's a convincing argument – you will in almost every conceivable case have a build pipeline in place anyway, so there's not really a cost there.

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by Touche on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:59PM (#8970400)

I don't set up a "build pipeline" until I'm sure the app is going to deployed to a production environment. Why would I set up a build for what is essentially a fiddle, or if I'm just experimenting? The now-common workflow where people write build scripts at the start of a new project is just bizarre to me.

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by iopq on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:25PM (#8970454)

Sure, and why do people use C anyway? You can write binary directly without any kind of make utility.

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by recursive on Friday January 30, 2015 @12:07PM (#8972949)

Probably because machine code is not very human comprehensible.

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by iopq on Saturday January 31, 2015 @10:06PM (#8979014)

Neither is minimized JavaScript

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by mistercow on Friday January 30, 2015 @11:12AM (#8972682)

You're partially right, but every build step has a cost when you're working on a large project.

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