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Great node.js developers are writing libraries, not application code, and they see a difference: libraries are abstractions that try to build upon as little abs
by tmcw 14y ago
Great node.js developers are writing libraries, not application code, and they see a difference: libraries are abstractions that try to build upon as little abstraction as possible, and attempt to integrate with as many 'things' as possible.
CoffeeScript's advantages - clarity and concise code - are outweighed by the feeling of building on an abstraction, and narrowing your contributor base. This feeling may be increasingly inaccurate: a lot of people write coffeescript, it's pretty well integrated nowadays.
- tjholowaychuk 14y agowe write plenty of application code actually, all of us listed there I'm sure, we just dont give a shit about the "features" coffeescript "adds"
- tmcw 14y agoand here I was trying to be an apologist and be nice :)
- davej 14y ago> 'we just dont give a shit about the "features" coffeescript "adds"' I'm not sure why you're claiming to speak for the other nine developers listed in the post. It's a good point that tmcw makes. Plenty of developers, including Jeremy Ashkenas (creator of CS), write their open-source library stuff in vanilla javascript while hacking away with CoffeeScript for other things which don't rely on community contributions.