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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @09:52PM (#6215692)
People who don't know javascript.
Re:Intro to CoffeeScript on Monday August 05, 2013 @12:06AM (#6158397)
It would have been great if he had mentioned IcedCoffeeScript at some point too. Coffeescript by itself is 'ok' but IcedCoffeScript - at least on the serverside - is fantastic.
Re:TypeScript 0.9 released on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @10:26PM (#5903408)
I disagree. 1. Coffeescript is far from ugly, and also not particularly similar to Ruby :p 2. Typescript includes types and brackets. Coffeescript does not. 3. Icedcoffescript includes async/defer keywords. I include this last point only as a result of a personal perspective that if you're going to use coffeescript, you might as well use icedcoffeescript.