activestylus

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   by activestylus 14y ago

   Nice to have you chime in here Jeremy. I personally use CoffeeScript a lot. I also code in Ruby and understand its appeal from that perspective. However I am curious what your take is on dxbydt's reply below. He makes a very interesting com
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   by activestylus 14y ago

   ^ Thanks for sharing that. I hadn't heard of Synapse but its the most unobtrusive data-binding lib I've seen so far. Very cool indeed! As far as implementation goes, it still feels "wrong" to me. I love syntactic sugar when possible, but fo
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   by activestylus 14y ago

   Well stated, and I agree 100% it is a sort of blindspot for this article. That said I agree with him on a level that CS does encourage a sort of OO band-aid approach towards functional programming and will definitely impede newcomers from e
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   by activestylus 14y ago

   True that - I actually disagree with his final conclusion, because you can still program functionally in CS. I embraced JS prototypes a long time ago and have no need for the OO magic offered by CS. That said I still prefer it for a good ch
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   My Perception of CoffeeScript(leongersing.tumblr.com)

   82 points by activestylus 14y ago|55 comments