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This is such a bummer to me. I was a late-comer to CoffeeScript (just joined a project at a company that's been using it for years), and I absolutely love it. I
by rev_bird 10y ago
This is such a bummer to me. I was a late-comer to CoffeeScript (just joined a project at a company that's been using it for years), and I absolutely love it. I was really skeptical ("JavaScript works just fine! Why change the syntax for no reason?"), but it's so slick.
- bcherny 10y agoSame here. Personally I prefer ES6 for a few reasons: - Future compatible, more interoperable - ES6 classes can extend each other in a standards compliant way - CS arrow functions feel verbose compared to ES6 - Constants - More tooling support - More features - Upcoming features, like ES7 async/await have polyfills that you can use today (as opposed to CS - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pull/3813 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pull/3813) Though I do miss a couple of things: - The last expression in a block is implicitly returned (nice sugar for functional programming) - Ranges ([1..10])