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I gave CoffeeScript a shot, and frankly I don't like these JS "wrapper" languages. First of all if you want anyone else to help you with your code its likely t
by pikachu_is_cool 13y ago
I gave CoffeeScript a shot, and frankly I don't like these JS "wrapper" languages.
First of all if you want anyone else to help you with your code its likely that they don't know the wrapper's syntax and will have to waste a bunch of time learning it. My boss got super excited about it when it first came out and it just caused a lot of headache and wasted time. First I (and all my coworkers) had to learn the language, and then port all of our existing code to CoffeScript. And for what? Some syntax sugar?
Honestly, I don't really see any problems with Javascript's syntax. It's everything else.
- subsection1h 13y ago> will have to waste a bunch of time learning it. Please define "bunch of time". I'm having trouble imagining how learning CoffeeScript would require more than a couple of hours for an experienced developer.
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoA couple of hours is a quite a bit of time IMO. Especially if there's alot of people that need to learn the language.
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoI mean, obviously a few hours isn't honestly that much. But in terms of the actual benefit you're getting by learning CS makes it not worth it at all. Workflow improvements are negligible (if anything, it probably worsens your workflow because of the extra compilation step). There's no compelling performance enhancement. You aren't getting any real benefit from learning CoffeeScript other than some feel-good syntactical sugar.