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What I loved about Prototype (apart from changing my opinion about Javascript) was that it sort of extended the language itself, and made more possible with les
by jeswin 16y ago
What I loved about Prototype (apart from changing my opinion about Javascript) was that it sort of extended the language itself, and made more possible with less. But now, I feel coffeescript is a better way to go. What I hated about Prototype was performance. And jQuery is way better there.
This seems to be like Firefox v/s Webkit. Prototype 2.0 is going to fix a lot of things (by not extending the DOM), but that approach is in many ways closer to jQuery.
- jashkenas 16y agoOne thing that we're trying to maintain with CoffeeScript is that the generated code is just as performant as you would have written in raw JS -- i.e. loops are just loops. It would be lovely if that sort of performance were possible in a JavaScript library that supplied "each", but sadly, it's not.
- jeswin 16y agoThe verbosity problem in JS cannot be solved with libraries, although methods like "each" made life a lot easier. Seeing CoffeeScript is the first time I've felt I can write a full app in Javascript. You and your team have produced something truly significant.