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I don't think the output really needs to be readable since they're going for speed over anything else. Who is normally reading this stuff?
by benbristow 8y ago
I don't think the output really needs to be readable since they're going for speed over anything else.
Who is normally reading this stuff?
- imtringued 8y agoThe devs who are working on the compiler. Not the end user.
- alangpierce 8y agoDepends on the context, but FWIW, CoffeeScript has an explicit design goal of producing human-readable output (even though it's just JS to run in the browser) so that people learning the language can try out examples and build intuition and trust in what JS is going to be produced. It also helps when using a debugger without source maps.