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I suppose this makes sense. In my experience, overwhelming majority of people using open source software never read the code. Some minority of people do read th

I suppose this makes sense. In my experience, overwhelming majority of people using open source software never read the code. Some minority of people do read the code (but in that case, they'd be reading Javascript because that's how we ship the driver). A small proportion of the people reading the code actually end up modifying it themselves, and this admittedly is a problem (though I find Coffeescript so easy to pick up, I don't think it's a serious barrier for anyone who really wants to make changes).

whateverfor 13y ago
Not that it's really an issue here because Coffescript is basically Javascript anyway, but legible source is important even for developers who don't end up reading it. The people who actually read the code are a small subset of the group that depends on being able to read the code if necessary. I haven't needed to dive into the source for everything I've integrated into a product because of inadequate API documentation or bugs, but it happens, and it's not something you can generally tell ahead of time.