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Well the point is choice. The more choice the better. I don't personally like intermediate languages. To each his own. I rather write javascript and css rather

Well the point is choice. The more choice the better. I don't personally like intermediate languages. To each his own. I rather write javascript and css rather than get coffeescript or sass involved.

sghiassy 9y ago
Agreed - CoffeeScript was a great stop gap solution, but with ES6, it seems it's marginal utility is limited.
- devoply 9y ago
  Well you have to ask for whom. For existing coffee script developers, they can keep using it until they get up to date with ES6. It's a language and it takes time to learn.
  - sghiassy 9y ago
    I'm not sure I'd agree that there is the concept of a "coffeescript" developer. Coffeescript is an intermediate language in the same way SASS is to CSS. If you program in SASS and feel out of touch touch with CSS, then I feel you've lost your way. In the same vein, if a CoffeeScript developer, needs "significant" time and investment to transition to ES6, then I would think there is a significant erosion in that developer's understanding of CoffeeScript's ES5 underpinnings.
    - devoply 9y ago
      Yeah you are right. I was making a general point in the case of coffee script perhaps it's irrelevant. I don't write it so I am not in the know.
    - carc1n0gen 9y ago
      Except sass is a fully backwards compatible superset to CSS, and coffescript is definitely not that to JavaScript.
      - sghiassy 9y ago
        Really? Are you sure? If CoffeeScript isn't fully compatible with JS then what is it? I mean at some point it has to go through a JS interpreter to run.
        carc1n0gen 9y ago
        I created a coffee file called list.coffee with: var list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; When I run `coffee list.coffee` I get: /home/****/Code/coffee/thing.coffee:1:1: error: reserved word 'var' var list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; ^^^ The coffeescript interpreter is standalone and does not turn it in to JS.
tmat 9y ago
there are clear value adds to sass i find.. not so much w/ coffeescript.. sass is more than just syntax sugar.

Well the point is choice. The more choice the better. I don't personally like intermediate languages. To each his own. I rather write javascript and css rather than get coffeescript or sass involved.

sghiassy 9y ago

Agreed - CoffeeScript was a great stop gap solution, but with ES6, it seems it's marginal utility is limited.

devoply 9y ago
Well you have to ask for whom. For existing coffee script developers, they can keep using it until they get up to date with ES6. It's a language and it takes time to learn.
- sghiassy 9y ago
  I'm not sure I'd agree that there is the concept of a "coffeescript" developer. Coffeescript is an intermediate language in the same way SASS is to CSS. If you program in SASS and feel out of touch touch with CSS, then I feel you've lost your way. In the same vein, if a CoffeeScript developer, needs "significant" time and investment to transition to ES6, then I would think there is a significant erosion in that developer's understanding of CoffeeScript's ES5 underpinnings.
  - devoply 9y ago
    Yeah you are right. I was making a general point in the case of coffee script perhaps it's irrelevant. I don't write it so I am not in the know.
  - carc1n0gen 9y ago
    Except sass is a fully backwards compatible superset to CSS, and coffescript is definitely not that to JavaScript.
    - sghiassy 9y ago
      Really? Are you sure? If CoffeeScript isn't fully compatible with JS then what is it? I mean at some point it has to go through a JS interpreter to run.
      - carc1n0gen 9y ago
        I created a coffee file called list.coffee with: var list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; When I run `coffee list.coffee` I get: /home/****/Code/coffee/thing.coffee:1:1: error: reserved word 'var' var list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; ^^^ The coffeescript interpreter is standalone and does not turn it in to JS.

tmat 9y ago

there are clear value adds to sass i find.. not so much w/ coffeescript.. sass is more than just syntax sugar.