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I was a big supporter of their choice of CoffeeScript... until @jashkenas et al decided not to adapt to ES6. Now the language is dead and users are better off m

by rattray 11y ago

I was a big supporter of their choice of CoffeeScript... until @jashkenas et al decided not to adapt to ES6. Now the language is dead and users are better off migrating to Babel and just dealing with the curly braces and commas. I agree it's a pity. EDIT: the blog post mentions support for Babel! http://blog.atom.io/2015/02/04/built-in-6to5.html http://blog.atom.io/2015/02/04/built-in-6to5.html

benatkin 11y ago
When did @jashkenas decide not to adapt to ES6? I searched and found this, which indicates they're open to it. Someone just needs to implement it. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/3162#issuecomment-72883834 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/3162#issuec...
- rattray 11y ago
  > "I think that such a pull request has a moderately slim chance of being accepted — it's probably still better to wait until real JS modules are finished and fully described. But it's worth a shot." It's not that they've decided they're opposed to ES6, it's just that there's been no leadership in moving towards it. Which at this stage has left the language almost dead in the water.