Atom 1.0 - Hackdot

Re:Atom 1.0 by rattray on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:57AM (#9778821)

I was a big supporter of their choice of CoffeeScript... until @jashkenas et al decided not to adapt to ES6. Now the language is dead and users are better off migrating to Babel and just dealing with the curly braces and commas.

I agree it's a pity.

EDIT: the blog post mentions support for Babel! http://blog.atom.io/2015/02/04/built-in-6to5.html

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Re:Atom 1.0 by benatkin on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:36PM (#9779123)

When did @jashkenas decide not to adapt to ES6? I searched and found this, which indicates they're open to it. Someone just needs to implement it.

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/3162#issuec...

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Re:Atom 1.0 by rattray on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:22PM (#9779433)

> "I think that such a pull request has a moderately slim chance of being accepted — it's probably still better to wait until real JS modules are finished and fully described. But it's worth a shot."

It's not that they've decided they're opposed to ES6, it's just that there's been no leadership in moving towards it. Which at this stage has left the language almost dead in the water.

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