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TL;DR: Several high-profile Node.js developers seem not to have used CoffeeScript for any of their public projects (unless you count forks). In addition, some u
by jrajav 14y ago
TL;DR: Several high-profile Node.js developers seem not to have used CoffeeScript for any of their public projects (unless you count forks). In addition, some unspecified expert Node.js devs (perhaps the same ones, perhaps not) made an unspecified joke involving CoffeeScript on a podcast. Therefore, all the great Node.js developers hate CoffeeScript.
I'm not arguing what the article seems to circle around to near the end - that CoffeeScript is worth trying - but its nominal premise seems a little shaky. Perhaps those developers simply feel as I do, that Javascript syntax is fine and there's not that great of an incentive to switch. I actually like braces and semicolons, and I definitely prefer function literal syntax to arrow syntax.
- roh26it 14y agoIn the end, its just syntax. Some like the python/ruby-esque mode and thus go for coffee.
- cnp 14y agoI used to really enjoy writing in CoffeeScript, but lately I've been finding that it's much more difficult to read after the fact. As TJ put it -- "word soup".
- jasonkostempski 14y agoIn the end it's another syntax, another compiler, several new plugins for your editor, another dependency, a bunch of new abstraction, another unproven technology, another black box, etc. It's not so simple, the choice shouldn't be made lightly.