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Announcing CoffeeScript 2

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Re: Announcing CoffeeScript 2

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Post by jashkenas »

In open source, it's lovely, and fairly rare, to see someone pick up the ball on a quiet project, and run with it to completion without getting frustrated or losing interest first.

Geoffrey Booth — with big assists from Simon Lydell and Chris Connelly — has really gone the distance here, spending a full year working on drafts of CoffeeScript 2.0 to upgrade it from a language designed around ES3, to make it as ES6+ friendly as possible.

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/commits/master

He also redid the website and the docs for good measure: http://coffeescript.org/

Bravo.

Re: Announcing CoffeeScript 2

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Post by bpicolo »

jashkenas wrote: post #3

In open source, it's lovely, and fairly rare, to see someone pick up the ball on a quiet project, and run with it to completion without getting frustrated or losing interest first. Geoffrey Booth — with big assists from Simon Lydell and Chris Connelly — has really gone the distance here, spending a full year working on drafts of CoffeeScript 2.0 to upgrade it from a language designed around ES3, to make it as ES6+ fr…

It's very impressive to see what the team did here in picking it up from you as maintainer. Props to the team!

Re: Announcing CoffeeScript 2

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Post by 83457 »

SquareWheel wrote: post #6
bpicolo wrote: post #2

The breaking changes page is ironically quite broken (latest chrome) http://coffeescript.org/#breaking-changes Edit: Seems that my computer doesn't consider the cert authority valid for bootstrapcdn.

Seems to work here okay. Also latest Chrome.

I tried before and after the very latest update without a problem.

Re: Announcing CoffeeScript 2

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Post by city41 »

I can't imagine CoffeeScript will see much adoption these days as most people seem to think ES6+ is "good enough". I miss how concise functions are in CoffeeScript and also miss being able to do object literals without the braces. But there's no chance at all in convincing my team to adopt it, as modern JS really is "good enough".
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