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Throughout its life, CoffeeScript has been by disparaged by those who just seem to really hate it's existence for some reason. At first it was "you can't debug
by alextgordon 11y ago
Throughout its life, CoffeeScript has been by disparaged by those who just seem to really hate it's existence for some reason. At first it was "you can't debug generated code!", now that everybody is using generated code it's "coffeescript is the past, you don't want to live in the past do you?"
Except... CoffeeScript does all sorts of nice things that Babel does not. List comprehensions. Lack of == operator. Correct modulo operator. Block regexes. Triple-quoted strings. The @ syntax.
There is a strong cult-like vibe to the JS community, and I really find it off-putting. They have taken a technical limitation "Browsers only support JS" and turned it into a socially enforced rule "You may only use JS". Fuck 'em.