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I wouldn't even classify CoffeeScript as another language. It's really just javascript with some syntactical sugar. It took me about 20 mins to get comfortable

• wmil 11y ago
  It's another barrier to entry. Documentation is probably the worst place to encounter a new language, since the reader is already confused and frustrated. CoffeeScript is a nice language, but I think it's reputation suffers from it's association with Ruby. Far too many CoffeeScript tutorials are aimed at Rails devs who don't want to learn new syntax.
• baudehlo 11y ago
  It's a lot of syntactic sugar and things removed. Even the ?: operator which I use a lot. Typing "a = if b then c else d" is a huge wasted opportunity to just keep the ?: op. Plus there's no way to get the == operator even if you know you want it and understand the nuances.
  • eric_h 11y ago
    I honestly find I use the ? operator in coffeescript far, far more often than I want to use a ternary conditional. Fair enough on the == operator, but it's another that I have honestly never needed or wanted.
  • gunn 11y ago
    If c is truthy: a = b && c || d