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Like what? From what I've seen it brings an alternative syntax without reducing any complexity. And before you say it, no, removing braces does not reduce com

• bauchidgw 15y ago
  well, you definitly didn't use it.
• exogen 15y ago
  It reduces complexity by making semantics that many programmers expect a part of the syntax. For instance, methods always being bound to their instance (=>). To use one striking example, it turns this: class Widget render: => alert "Here I am!" class Button extends Widget ...into this equivalent JavaScript: var Button, Widget; var __bind = function(fn, me){ return function(){ return fn.apply(me, arguments); }; }, __hasProp = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty, __extends = function(child, parent) { for (var key in parent) { if (__hasProp.call(parent, key)) child[key] = parent[key]; } function ctor() { this.constructor = child; } ctor.prototype = parent.prototype; child.prototype = new ctor; child.__super__ = parent.prototype; return child; }; Widget = (function() { function Widget() { this.render = __bind(this.render, this); } Widget.prototype.render = function() { return alert("Here I am!"); }; return Widget; })(); Button = (function() { __extends(Button, Widget); function Button() { Button.__super__.constructor.apply(this, arguments); } return Button; })(); I'd say that's more than sugar. That is complexity reduction.