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I'd have to say it's your loss, it's a shame to discount a programming language simply based on a blog post. I remember plenty of blog posts about Go popping up

I'd have to say it's your loss, it's a shame to discount a programming language simply based on a blog post. I remember plenty of blog posts about Go popping up a few years claiming that it was unusable due to the lack of generics, mainly stemming from on a lack of familiarity with the language. The main reason to use Coffeescript is in place of Javascript, which already has plenty of warts to avoid, many more serious that this issue, and many of which Coffeescript helps to alleviate. If time spent on something is important to you, Coffeescript can help save a great deal through it's expressiveness, especially in areas where vanilla JS is awkward (eg. OOP). Personally, with relation to the scoping issue, I tend towards using Underscore's higher-order iteration functions (each, map, reduce, etc.) in most cases instead of Coffeescript's `for`, which eliminates this issue entirely due to the scoping of the anonymous functions passed to them.

mattdeboard 13y ago
In my experience, most people who dismiss/hate on CoffeeScript have never tried it. I've personally never met a person who has used the language at length and walked away hating it.
- crazygringo 13y ago
  See my root comment. I used it for a whole year, and it would drive me nuts every day. I would never use it again. But then again, you've never personally met me, so maybe I don't count :)
- epidemian 13y ago
  I have know one or two people that dismissed CoffeeScript after fiddling with it for a while; but they were people who didn't have previous experience with JavaScript, and i suspect that might be part of the reason. The people i've known who most embraced CS were people who have had their deal of JS experience, who knew many of JS quirks and its workarounds, like doing "var self = this", or how to use closure visibility to avoid the need for global variables, or even how to up a prototype chain to implement some basic inheritance. Personally, i know that whenever i have to code in JS for whatever reason and need to do some of those things, i miss CS :)

mattdeboard 13y ago

In my experience, most people who dismiss/hate on CoffeeScript have never tried it. I've personally never met a person who has used the language at length and walked away hating it.

crazygringo 13y ago
See my root comment. I used it for a whole year, and it would drive me nuts every day. I would never use it again. But then again, you've never personally met me, so maybe I don't count :)
epidemian 13y ago
I have know one or two people that dismissed CoffeeScript after fiddling with it for a while; but they were people who didn't have previous experience with JavaScript, and i suspect that might be part of the reason. The people i've known who most embraced CS were people who have had their deal of JS experience, who knew many of JS quirks and its workarounds, like doing "var self = this", or how to use closure visibility to avoid the need for global variables, or even how to up a prototype chain to implement some basic inheritance. Personally, i know that whenever i have to code in JS for whatever reason and need to do some of those things, i miss CS :)