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...you know JavaScript well and haven't bothered to "learn" the second-most-popular dialect? Take ten minutes right now and read through the CoffeeScript refere

by Cushman 15y ago

...you know JavaScript well and haven't bothered to "learn" the second-most-popular dialect? Take ten minutes right now and read through the CoffeeScript reference-- poof, you learned it. It is just JavaScript. Really, no one's forcing you to write it. But if you have a working understanding of JavaScript and you can't read CoffeeScript fluently, it's because you aren't trying. Just swallow your pride and deal with it already.

untog 15y ago
you know JavaScript well and haven't bothered to "learn" the second-most-popular dialect? Come on, what kind of percentage are we talking about here? Tiny. Absolutely tiny. Take ten minutes right now and read through the CoffeeScript reference-- poof, you learned it. It is just JavaScript. Well, you haven't learned it unless you memorised absolutely every aspect of it, which you're unlikely to do on a first read. And it isn't "just" JavaScript- it has significant whitespace, different object notation, etc. etc. Don't get me wrong, I've started using CoffeeScript and I like it. But it's a tiny, tiny minority language. There are a ton of JavaScripters out there that haven't learnt it because they don't need or want it. That's their choice.
- jashkenas 15y ago
  For better or for worse, not so "tiny, tiny" anymore: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/02/08/language-rankings-2-2012/ http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/02/08/language-rankings-2-20...
  - eldude 15y ago
    I wonder how much of CoffeeScript's prevalence on Github can be contributed to existing projects ported from JavaScript. Either way it's not a particularly important point as CoffeeScript is a "dialect" as everyone likes to say and not a language, so this will likely always more or less be the case, surprising nonetheless.
- phillmv 15y ago
  >Well, you haven't learned it unless you memorised absolutely every aspect of it Oh man! I guess I don't know any programming languages whatsoever.
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VMG 15y ago
With significant white space, brace insertion and other things happening, it's not the easiest language to read. I say this as someone who has written his share of applications in CoffeeScript.

by Cushman 15y ago

untog 15y ago

you know JavaScript well and haven't bothered to "learn" the second-most-popular dialect? Come on, what kind of percentage are we talking about here? Tiny. Absolutely tiny. Take ten minutes right now and read through the CoffeeScript reference-- poof, you learned it. It is just JavaScript. Well, you haven't learned it unless you memorised absolutely every aspect of it, which you're unlikely to do on a first read. And it isn't "just" JavaScript- it has significant whitespace, different object notation, etc. etc. Don't get me wrong, I've started using CoffeeScript and I like it. But it's a tiny, tiny minority language. There are a ton of JavaScripters out there that haven't learnt it because they don't need or want it. That's their choice.

jashkenas 15y ago
For better or for worse, not so "tiny, tiny" anymore: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/02/08/language-rankings-2-2012/ http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/02/08/language-rankings-2-20...
- eldude 15y ago
  I wonder how much of CoffeeScript's prevalence on Github can be contributed to existing projects ported from JavaScript. Either way it's not a particularly important point as CoffeeScript is a "dialect" as everyone likes to say and not a language, so this will likely always more or less be the case, surprising nonetheless.
phillmv 15y ago
>Well, you haven't learned it unless you memorised absolutely every aspect of it Oh man! I guess I don't know any programming languages whatsoever.

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VMG 15y ago

With significant white space, brace insertion and other things happening, it's not the easiest language to read. I say this as someone who has written his share of applications in CoffeeScript.