Replace CoffeeScript with ES6

Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by quadratini on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:33PM (#8970474)

Coffeescript is pretty damn ugly. For god sakes can people please use parenthesis when calling functions with arguments?

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by Guillaume86 on Friday January 30, 2015 @04:11AM (#8971153)

I do it in my coffeescript for function calls. You just need some guidelines and some discipline.

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by briandear on Friday January 30, 2015 @03:35AM (#8971067)

Why add unnecessary clutter?

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by batiste on Friday January 30, 2015 @05:08AM (#8971312)

It is not unnecessary, it helps the reader building a mental model about what is a function and what is not. I would concede It can be useful to create some DSL or to access an object lazily but the is a price to pay: a more opaque code base

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by Gurkenmaster on Friday January 30, 2015 @04:18AM (#8971173)

Lisp programmers would love to disagree

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Re:Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 by Guthur on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:13AM (#8971801)

Parenthesis are not unnecessary in Lisp they're an essential delimiter in defining an s-expression's structure (does not need to be parenthesis but some token is required).

But for me that one bit of syntax is a lot less that the multitude required for many languages.

For something even more syntactically minimal there is Forth.

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