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In open source, it's lovely, and fairly rare, to see someone pick up the ball on a quiet project, and run with it to completion without getting frustrated or lo
by jashkenas 9y ago
In open source, it's lovely, and fairly rare, to see someone pick up the ball on a quiet project, and run with it to completion without getting frustrated or losing interest first.
Geoffrey Booth — with big assists from Simon Lydell and Chris Connelly — has really gone the distance here, spending a full year working on drafts of CoffeeScript 2.0 to upgrade it from a language designed around ES3, to make it as ES6+ friendly as possible.
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/commits/master https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/commits/master
He also redid the website and the docs for good measure: http://coffeescript.org/ http://coffeescript.org/
Bravo.
- bpicolo 9y agoIt's very impressive to see what the team did here in picking it up from you as maintainer. Props to the team!
- rattray 9y agoYou can also see on the "Contributors" graph a major increase in CoffeeScript contributions in the past year or so: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributors https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor... A bunch of people helped out: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/CoffeeScript-2-Honor-Roll https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/CoffeeScript-... And GeoffreyBooth coordinated the effort, posting regular status updates & calls for help, handling bugs / feature requests, etc. I didn't realize he was also writing most of the code! CoffeeScript2 started with a manifesto at https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss which turned into a cooperative effort with jashkenas to move CoffeeScript forward in a responsible way. An interesting story in its own right.
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