3 ms·

I don't like the Windows experience of CoffeScript. That's what's holding me back. I think I would use it if it had better Windows support. As far as I know Co

• wvenable 15y ago
  You can compile CoffeeScript's on Windows with this tool: https://github.com/alisey/CoffeeScript-Compiler-for-Windows https://github.com/alisey/CoffeeScript-Compiler-for-Windows And it doesn't require cygwin. I haven't tried it myself but it's the route I would go.
• dualogy 15y ago
  You're fully wrong. The CoffeeScript compiler is written in CoffeeScript and you find it in the extras/coffee-script.js JavaScript file. If you can load that in some JS runtime environment, no need for Node/NPM. Cygwin is the current way of "Node on Windows" but there will be much better / "more native" Node support for Windows coming in the next 4-20 months ;)) anyway, you don't need Node for Coffee. It only provides the Node integration pieces because the developer(s) do a lot of Node work themselves and it's a great way to write server-side code for Node for people coming from Python/Ruby etc.
• TrevorBurnham 15y ago
  It's true that tools for compiling CoffeeScript on Windows are lacking, though the compiler runs fine in the browser as well as on Node—try it yourself at http://coffeescript.org—and http://coffeescript.org—and also in various JS runtimes for Java, .NET, and of course Ruby. If you're using CoffeeScript without Node, you're missing out. Fortunately, Cygwin-free Windows support is on the roadmap for Node 0.6.