CoffeeScript Reviews and Details

Is CoffeeScript good?

Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, anti-AI, and written in Rust

  Not literally. And I would hardly say it was a matter of language superiority. I love Ruby myself. But Github was a lot simpler when it was still just a Rails app. But Rails was SSR by default, and most of the frontend was just Embedded Ruby (ERB) template files all over the place. And way back when, it was even relatively common to use Javascript supersets like CoffeeScript[1] and Opal[2]. The latter being Ruby... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• LaTeX Coffee Stains [pdf]

  Surely coffeescript would have been more appropriate? [0]: https://coffeescript.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Scala 3 slowed us down?

  My personal take is this would be like JavaScript adopting an optional Coffeescript[1] syntax. It's so different that it seems odd to make it an option vs a new language, etc. [1] https://coffeescript.org/#introduction. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: Why don't browsers just build a non-JS interpreter?

  JS isn't perfect, but it's good enough. And there is ongoing effort to make it even better. Also, many other languages compile to JS (without WASM). Notably: - https://www.typescriptlang.org/ - https://coffeescript.org/ - https://clojurescript.org/ - https://www.transcrypt.org/ I wrote https://multi-launch.leftium.com, which is only 6% JS. The majority is Svelte (65%) + TypeScript (27%). ( - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Vanilla+PostCSS as an Alternative to SCSS

  As a front-end web developer, do you still use CoffeeScript or jQuery? Unlikely, as TypeScript, ES/TC39 and Babel (and the retirement of Internet Explorer thanks to @codepo8 and his EDGE team) have helped to transform JavaScript into some kind of a modern programming language. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago

• Why React isn't dying

  On the other hand, companies choose React because that's where all the developers are. If you want to build something that can be maintained years from now, you better not choose the next hype train that goes straight to nowhere (remember CoffeeScript ?). You want something battle tested that has stood the test of time, where you won't have trouble finding developers to scale once you need to. And nobody ever got... - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago

• Civet: The CoffeeScript of TypeScript

  Http://coffeescript.org/#expressions this comes from Lisp and makes a lot of things easier. Obviously this was not implemented in ES6 because it would break compatibility and there is also some problems with implicit returns that made the feature a bit weird I wonder if a syntax like this for JS would work: const eldest = if (24>41) { escape "Liz" } else { escape "Ike" } with "escape" working like a mix of "break"... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Civet: The CoffeeScript of TypeScript

  Coffeescript[1] was a flavour of JS syntax meant to look similar to Ruby syntax. You just compiled it back to JS. It was nice for working on Rails projects since it made everything feel more “cohesive”. I assume this project is here for older Coffeescript[1] projects who want to start using typescript, and need access to interfaces/types that were present in old CS files. [1] https://coffeescript.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Im listening...

  Silly me forgot about CoffeeScript. Source: almost 4 years ago

• The Art of Transpilers - From One Programming Language to Another

  CoffeeScript tries to solve a slightly different problem. Instead of providing a superset that makes your code less prone to bugs, CoffeeScript makes JavaScript prettier. - Source: dev.to / about 4 years ago

• Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language

  After looking at all the examples I can't say I'm a fan. Sometimes it's even more verbose than standard regular expressions. Over the years I've become quite familiar with regexp so maybe I'm just biased, but I'd rather have something like CoffeeScript's block expressions instead, where you can easily group and document each part: https://coffeescript.org/#regexes. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Converting your vanilla Javascript app to TypeScript

  The Javascript language has gone through many updates throughout its long (in internet terms) history. Along with its Rapidly changing ecosystem and maturing developer base came attempts to ease some of Javascript’s shortcomings. Of note, One of the more significant attempts was CoffeeScript (initial release in 2009) which adds Syntactic sugar and features that make programming easier. - Source: dev.to / about 4 years ago

• SNOWBOL -- Need your opinion on a future project I'm planning on building. Would you use a language which is basically just COBOL but with simplified syntax?

  I think it would make a lot more sense to make a language with similar semantics to COBOL, but modernized syntax. Instead of Typescript, a better model might be Coffeescript or Moonscript, which have a nearly 1:1 semantic mapping with their target language, but offer a more ergonomic and less verbose syntax. I haven't worked with COBOL at all, but I think the verbose syntax is probably one of the most offputting... Source: about 4 years ago

• Thoughts on TypeScript

  Transpiled languages were nothing new to the web dev community. Let’s see - we had CoffeeScript, Flow, Elm, GWT counts? Sure why not, and of course TS (and probably more I’ve neglected). So we must ask ourselves why TS won, right? Well, at least I did. - Source: dev.to / over 4 years ago

• Which GUI framework to use for a new project?

  I mean saying that Typescript is not JS is saying CoffeeScript. Source: over 4 years ago

• Malloy – A Better SQL, from Looker

  Agreed. I'm not a big fan but the Coffescript docs do this beautifully. https://coffeescript.org/#overview. - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• Web Technologies Every Web Developer Must Know

  As we explained before, since computers don’t use languages that are anything like human languages, they need a different way to communicate. Here are some of the most popular programming languages: Javascript – used by all web browsers, Meteor, and lots of other frameworks CoffeeScript – a “dialect” of JavaScript. It is viewed as simpler but it converts back into JavaScript Python – used by the Django... - Source: dev.to / over 4 years ago

• Blur - Coffee and TV

  Sweet as love! And there is a related language called CoffeeScript. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Switching Spaces – Building Cohesive Rooms with Autumn Crossan

  Autumn: I don't have a really good name for this, honestly. I'm struggling to even describe it in ways that are cohesive at all. In my experience, the sorts of things that I'm interested in doing winds up involving a lot of certainly more people work than tech work. There's a lot more mentoring. There's a lot more meeting with people about the current state of things. And in my case, it was lots of discovery of... - Source: dev.to / almost 5 years ago

• Block closing in JavaScript

  There are inofficial flavors like Elm, CoffeeScript or the newer Imba, but I don't want to add another thing to my already huge JavaScript toolchain. Source: almost 5 years ago

• IntelliSense for CoffeeScript

  If anybody reading this does use coffeescript today, I'd love to know why. Well I obviously use it (a lot), and do so simply because I prefer its syntax. See top of https://coffeescript.org for an overview+playground. Source: almost 5 years ago