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Wait, why were node devs talking about Coffeescript? Weird.

• spraak 9y ago
  You can write CoffeeScript to target Node...
  • pcr0 9y ago
    The question is, why? Realistically, everybody who uses Coffeescript is/was a Rails developer at some point since the syntax is very opinionated towards rubyists. The typical Node dev is more likely to use ES6/7 which fixes a lot of the same js issues as Coffeescript.
    • alanh 9y ago
      what a facile interpretation. CoffeeScript offered a large number of meaningful improvements over ES5, not including superficial syntax differences. It _still_ offers truly meaningful niceties that can make code _better_ than the JavaScript equivalent.
    • k__ 9y ago
      As far as I can tell, much of the ES6 changes came from people who were using CoffeeScript before.