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> Good CoffeeScript is better than good JavaScript. Bold statement, explanation?
by MatthewPhillips 15y ago
> Good CoffeeScript is better than good JavaScript.
Bold statement, explanation?
- tjholowaychuk 15y agomajor fail
- yesbabyyes 15y agoAs a CoffeeScript - and JavaScript - fan, I must say that TJ's JavaScript is among the best code I've seen, in any language.
- tjholowaychuk 15y agosyntax doesn't make code beautiful, you can trust me on that one. I've seen beautiful C, lisp, erlang, js, asm, you name it. IMO the fanboy-ish nature of CS just screams naivety to me, kinda like when Ruby people think its syntax is "amazing", they all suck just in different ways :D haha if anything lisp is probably conceptually the most elegant
- rimantas 15y agoTrue, you can find ugly parts anywhere if you look hard enough. This however does not make everything the same. There is a huge difference if you encounter ugliness in every line you write or just in obscure cases. Syntax does matter.
- tjholowaychuk 15y agoactually now that i think about it, maybe that's why people like CS so much, their own inability to write clean code
- ryanflorence 15y agoI find really well-written CoffeeScript easier to comprehend and scan, even though the community at large believes I hate the stuff entirely (I don't). I'm just not sure if it's enough to make up for a less-than-optimal debugging experience, especially considering that most of us don't write really excellent code all the time.