Is CoffeScript still used much? I used it a bit a few years back when I was more interested in webdev and I liked it a lot, but I haven't really heard anything about it for a while. The only CoffeScript code I've seen lately is when I looked into finding the cause of a bug in a package for Atom several months backend back; I don't think I know of anything besides the Atom ecosystem that uses it nowadays, although I might just not be aware of other projects using it.
Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
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#32Which of these projects has a truly open development process that takes place in public and on Github? Are most (or some) of these developed internally by whichever enterprise is behind the language where developers at those companies "bake" commits and then push them up after going through an internal code review process?
D is open.
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#33Interesting to note that Julia comes in at #9 on the list, ahead of Scala, Clojure, and Erlang. I still think it's the most underrated programming language of the decade and hope that its usage continues to grow. I know it's touted as a language for numerical computing and scientific research, but I believe it would make a great general purpose language, perhaps even better than Python. Other than a few minor nitpick…
I'm not sure number of stars on gihub is a good measure of popularity of a language, especially when we're talking about number around 10k. I'm pretty sure Rust has more than 20K users, and Ruby and PHP have both more that 10K. Vast majority of these users though don't look through the C code of their engine and don't star it on github.
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#34Idea for gh: It will be a nice feature categories or even tags for repos. I would like to see a similar list for databases for example, or even relational database, blog engines, etc.
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#35I’ve used Crystal a bit and like it a lot. It’s a little rough around the edges, but I hope it gains more traction. It isn’t just for Rubyists either.
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#36Wow Go has really gained traction. Coming from a Python, PHP, JavaScript background I have been contemplating learning Go or Elixir this year. I am drawn to Elixir because of the functional approach which is different than what I am used to.
I have very similar background after playing with both decided to focus on Elixir very pleasant language and all the power of BEAM/OTP.
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#37Idea for gh: It will be a nice feature categories or even tags for repos. I would like to see a similar list for databases for example, or even relational database, blog engines, etc.
these are curated lists, here's one for nosql: https://github.com/showcases/nosql-databases
edit: big list of lists: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
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#38Is CoffeScript still used much? I used it a bit a few years back when I was more interested in webdev and I liked it a lot, but I haven't really heard anything about it for a while. The only CoffeScript code I've seen lately is when I looked into finding the cause of a bug in a package for Atom several months backend back; I don't think I know of anything besides the Atom ecosystem that uses it nowadays, although I m…
I think that CoffeeScript may have been a victim of its own success, now that ES6 is here and seems to have included many of its best features (e.g. arrow functions). We can also consider CoffeeScript to be the one to prove that "compile-to-JS" languages could succeed, so in that sense it sparked the modern surge of such languages (and, obliquely, perhaps helped justify WASM as well).
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#40Is CoffeScript still used much? I used it a bit a few years back when I was more interested in webdev and I liked it a lot, but I haven't really heard anything about it for a while. The only CoffeScript code I've seen lately is when I looked into finding the cause of a bug in a package for Atom several months backend back; I don't think I know of anything besides the Atom ecosystem that uses it nowadays, although I m…
It is definitely less popular than it was pre-ES6, but it is still used.
I personally use it at work every day, plus I notice there are quite a few libraries (both open source and closed source) that are obviously compiled from coffeescript.
There is also work being done on a new version, CoffeeScript6, which will compile to ES6 and future ES standards. Check out the discussion at https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss