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Elixir also gives you really cool meta-programming tools, a way to extend the language, that aren't part of CoffeeScript.
by andyl 12y ago
Elixir also gives you really cool meta-programming tools, a way to extend the language, that aren't part of CoffeeScript.
- untothebreach 12y agoI can't say for sure, but I don't think it would be impossible to add that kind of capability to coffeescript, but you are right that right now coffeescript can't do that
- klibertp 12y agoSome people tried IIRC but they never got very far. One reason could be that syntactic abstraction is generally not in great demand, but could be something else entirely. Also, take a look at Sweet.js