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ES6, CoffeeScript, and TypeScript all have near-perfect awareness, which surprised me since TypeScript isn’t quite as popular as the other two yet. I take issu

ES6, CoffeeScript, and TypeScript all have near-perfect awareness, which surprised me since TypeScript isn’t quite as popular as the other two yet. I take issue with that statement. Just anecdotal, but I think these days Typescript is much more "popular" than CoffeeScript

bryanlarsen 10y ago
Awareness just means "have heard of it". 99% have heard of Coffeescript but 14% want to use it in the future. 98% have heard of Typescript but 60% want to use it in the future.
Roboprog 10y ago
It's got the Microsoft Seal of Approval(TM)! Yeah, doesn't mean much to me, but it does guarantee you can get tools that are compatible with it.
tomatsu 10y ago
Anecdotally, CS appears to have lost quite a bit of popularity while TS gained some. RedMonk seems to confirm these trends. TS grows while CS stagnates: Q1 2016: http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/02/lang-rank-944px-wm.png http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/02/lang-... Q3 2016: http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang.rank_.Q316.plot-WM.png http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang....
- davidjnelson 10y ago
  Ts seems awesome but it looked like kind of a pain with separate ts and js files, mandatory type definitions not being present for lots of dependencies, and back when I looked at it seeming pretty all or nothing. I like flow. The people that built ts are brilliant too though. Curious if anyone has a good comparison between flow and ts. I've heard ts has improved a lot lately.
  - bostonvaulter2 10y ago
    > mandatory type definitions not being present for lots of dependencies That is the biggest detriment to typescript in my book. I played around with it for a bit but finding accurate (and up to date!) type definitions for external dependencies was a huge pain.
pmontra 10y ago
The survey also comments "few developers have used CoffeeScript, and apparently almost nobody wants to learn it" and concludes with "Some technologies [...] proved to be on their way out (CoffeeScript)." Hopefully DHH recognizes this and deprecates CS out of Rails.
zebraflask 10y ago
Not surprising. If you've ever had to work with CoffeeScript in a large code base with multiple developers, it's . . . not ideal. I can't stand it, personally.

bryanlarsen 10y ago

Awareness just means "have heard of it". 99% have heard of Coffeescript but 14% want to use it in the future. 98% have heard of Typescript but 60% want to use it in the future.

Roboprog 10y ago

It's got the Microsoft Seal of Approval(TM)! Yeah, doesn't mean much to me, but it does guarantee you can get tools that are compatible with it.

tomatsu 10y ago

Anecdotally, CS appears to have lost quite a bit of popularity while TS gained some. RedMonk seems to confirm these trends. TS grows while CS stagnates: Q1 2016: http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/02/lang-rank-944px-wm.png http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/02/lang-... Q3 2016: http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang.rank_.Q316.plot-WM.png http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang....

davidjnelson 10y ago
Ts seems awesome but it looked like kind of a pain with separate ts and js files, mandatory type definitions not being present for lots of dependencies, and back when I looked at it seeming pretty all or nothing. I like flow. The people that built ts are brilliant too though. Curious if anyone has a good comparison between flow and ts. I've heard ts has improved a lot lately.
- bostonvaulter2 10y ago
  > mandatory type definitions not being present for lots of dependencies That is the biggest detriment to typescript in my book. I played around with it for a bit but finding accurate (and up to date!) type definitions for external dependencies was a huge pain.

pmontra 10y ago

The survey also comments "few developers have used CoffeeScript, and apparently almost nobody wants to learn it" and concludes with "Some technologies [...] proved to be on their way out (CoffeeScript)." Hopefully DHH recognizes this and deprecates CS out of Rails.

zebraflask 10y ago

Not surprising. If you've ever had to work with CoffeeScript in a large code base with multiple developers, it's . . . not ideal. I can't stand it, personally.