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Looks great. Wish it used JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript to lower the barrier to entry though.
by benaston 14y ago
Looks great. Wish it used JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript to lower the barrier to entry though.
- thibaut_barrere 14y agoInterestingly for me it's the reverse: using CoffeeScript lowers the barrier to entry :-)
- k__ 14y agodafuq?
- masukomi 14y agoI would not be surprised if spinning up on CoffeeScript was easier for beginners without real JavaScript experience.
- k__ 14y agoyeah, probably. Dunno if it's a good thing, that people start with a transcompiled language...
- thibaut_barrere 14y agoIt was much easier to get started to CoffeeScript for me, and learning it made me much more comfortable with writing JavaScript directly straight after.
- pushmatrix 14y agoYou can still use plain old JavaScript if you want.
- vidarh 14y agoI dislike CoffeeScript as much as the next guy, but the most complicated widget is 35 lines of CoffeeScript, most of which is pretty much identical to what the JS would be. There looks to be less than 100 lines of CoffeeScript outside of the widgets. If there's a project where I can overlook the use of CoffeeScript this is it...