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I really wanted to like CoffeeScript but that it can't be metaprogrammed and serialized (easily) is a huge problem for a scripting language. I guess scripting

by dstein 16y ago

I really wanted to like CoffeeScript but that it can't be metaprogrammed and serialized (easily) is a huge problem for a scripting language. I guess scripting was never the point of CoffeeScript, but a lot of what makes JavaScript so flexible is lost when you add a compile stage.

mrkurt 16y ago
I'm struggling to think of something I can do in Javascript, but not CoffeeScript. Can you give an example?
- dstein 16y ago
  Because of whitespace and line break sensitivity you can't dynamically generate serialized CoffeeScript (unless delicately handled) because it won't compile.
  - noamsml 16y ago
    Why would you even do that? You could just dynamically generate serialized JS and load it with CoffeeScript.
    - dstein 16y ago
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28computer_science%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28computer_science%...
- oscilloscope 16y ago
  I'm building a web-based IDE for Raphael in CS. My big pain point: when users define a function, JS Shell returns the JS version of the function. If the user types in a function name without calling it, they see the JS definition. Since one can't go from JS -> CS, I can't figure out a good way to keep JS away from the user. http://fleetinbeing.net/raffi/ http://fleetinbeing.net/raffi/ (type "spiral 30" to run a function defined in CS, then type "spiral" to see the definition in JS)