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One of the things that I absolutely love about Javascript is that it doesn't need to be compiled. Most of people's time is actually spent debugging and not core
by OmarIsmail 16y ago
One of the things that I absolutely love about Javascript is that it doesn't need to be compiled. Most of people's time is actually spent debugging and not core coding. Therefore I highly highly value the "code-deploy-test" loop being as tight and friction free as possible. And with Javascript that loop doesn't get much tighter.
- Cushman 16y agoYou too should try coffeescript— the compiler has a watcher built in that makes the compilation completely transparent. For me at least, the time saved vastly outweighs adding that one step to project setup. I always commit both files (.coffee and .js) together, so I know for sure that the compiled version is up to date. (With the disclaimer that the CoffeeScript syntax is still unstable, so it probably shouldn't be used for anything mission critical.)