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Yes, I still use it when I'm in Rails. Even in new rails apps it's easier to use coffeescript than babel. The newer sprockets beta still isn't reliable enough.

from the link: CoffeeScript’s intent, however, was never to be a superset of JavaScript. One of the guiding principles of CoffeeScript has been simplicity: not just removing JavaSc…

My last salary was about 70,000 NZD, which is less than $49,000 USD. I now make $87,000 USD (about 124,000 NZD), and I've got a written agreement for a raise to $95,000 in about an…

I made the move in 2006. Lived in New Zealand for the next ten years (returned to the U.S. last year). I'll try to give a detailed, informed picture instead of a quick summary beca…

How bizarre. I specifically relocated from NZ to the U.S. because of the lack of job opportunities in the Tech industry. I'd been looking for a job for over 9 months in New Zealand…

Vue really has the best of both worlds. You can use it like old-style angular or take the component approach. You can just include the 71kb minified script and take off or you can …

Have to agree with you. I'm still lugging around my 2011 17" MBP. For work I've been issued a recent 13"(not the newest MBP) and it does not perform significantly better than my 20…

It's worked out well for me. I started picking it up almost 2 years ago and I make more than I ever did before. Where I work we are always advertising for Senior Rails Devs. There …

There are definitely options between free and 15k. I went to an online code bootcamp and paid about 4k. The course came with about 18 hours of one-on-one mentor sessions, an all or…