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I'm a Python programmer. In Python, trailing comma are idiomatic, so I welcome this. Perhaps I'm just a lazy bastard, but it makes cut & paste a lot easier.
Controversies like the "trailing comma" strike me as evidence that JavaScript has superfluous syntax. The reason it even uses commas the way it does is that it started life as a lisp with (manager-mandated) Java-like syntax. I happen to agree with the position that syntax that can be made implicit should be. CoffeeScript has done a good job of this. LiveScript has done an even better one. What are the arguments again…
And that language shouldn't be used by beginners in 2016 due to its uncertain fate in the long run as its creator kind of abandoned the project. Furhtermore ES2015 adds many CS features to the language.
Don't know about LiveScript, but frankly that whole transpilation thing is a mess. People don't use Transpilers for Python or Ruby. They work with the language quirks.
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> Is there a good reason not to use a syntactically cleaner language ... I find Coffeescript hard to read. Especially when dealing with nested callbacks (e.x.: when you have to nest, such as with Jasmine `describe` and `it` blocks for testing). Here's an interesting thread on the "cons" of using Coffeescript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527316
Fair enough. Maybe CoffeeScript specifically isn't the answer. But the general idea of compiling neater languages into JavaScript strikes me as a better long-term solution than settling for its current syntactical warts, which are entirely historical accidents. I do like ES6!
I'm a big JS fan. I can't stand Coffeescript - it doesn't seem to add anything except changing the syntax to make it easier for Rubyists to understand. Which is fine, I guess, but feels like a personal preference. More like a text editor setting than something anyone should publish their code in.
Same for Typescript, to a certain extent, though I understand the heartfelt desire to have the compiler pick up some of the more common errors.
We run the risk of fragmenting the community by promoting CS and TS - better to evolve JS itself, which is what is happening and it's great.
TL;DR: kill Coffeescript and Typescript, evolve Javascript for the win!
After a while I got used to them and I like the copy-paste-ability the enable... I'm also hoping they put an end to leading-comma style,
{ one = 1
, two = 2
, three = 3
}
Trailing commas were tough to get used to because my primary communication language is English, After a while I got used to them and I like the copy-paste-ability the enable... I'm also hoping they put an end to leading-comma style,
Not sure if there are any other interpreter inconsistencies.
Trailing commas were tough to get used to because my primary communication language is English, After a while I got used to them and I like the copy-paste-ability the enable... I'm also hoping they put an end to leading-comma style,
There is so much in programming that isn't necessarily directly in line with English, why are trailing commas any different?