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I think he misses one of the important points of comparing JS with assembly. Not only is assembly unportable, it's hard to read and hard to write for a human be
by ArchD 14y ago
I think he misses one of the important points of comparing JS with assembly. Not only is assembly unportable, it's hard to read and hard to write for a human being. People use languages like Coffeescript not necessarily to deal with portability, but to avoid the quirks of JS that make it hard to read and write.
- coldtea 14y agoAll 10 of them? Because people have been writing huge programs in plain JS just fine. More often than not, Coffeescript is used for plain vanilla front end code, the kind of that people can do in JS with their eyes closed.
- ArchD 14y agoI'm sure the quirks can be dealt with given enough time and energy to climb the learning curve, but some people just don't want to spend energy on it when they can learn another language. I, for example, don't deal with JS daily and can't remember those quirks by heart.