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What experience do people have with other tools for generating javascript? https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-J

What experience do people have with other tools for generating javascript? https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... I'm wondering how they compare, and what people have to say.

TrevorBurnham 16y ago
Many of those tools (including Coco, a CoffeeScript fork which is, objectively, more feature-rich) provide features to help manage asynchronous control flow (that is, to make callbacks look more like linear code). These proposals were rejected in CoffeeScript (see https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/350 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/350) because they take the language too far away from the underlying JavaScript—in particular, CoffeeScript code would no longer necessarily have the same order as the JavaScript output. For heavily async code, those other tools are well worth looking at.
gruseom 16y ago
We use Parenscript heavily. It's great. The full power of Lisp macros on top of efficient JS.