Thanks for this Jeremy and everyone who contributed. I've held off really coming to grips with javascript because I found it ugly and full of too many gotchas. But Coffeescript has got rid of all those excuses!
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#12Great work Jeremy! I've been using CoffeeScript extensively for an upcoming project, and having written 1000+ lines of it so far, I'm loving it!
Now if someone made a Cappuccino like framework on top of CoffeeScript instead of Objective-J I'd be in heaven :) Out of curiosity, what are you making?
We are developing an open-source MMO on node.js and WebGL - http://github.com/feisty
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#13Would people be interested in a Ruby-oriented project like this? Say, tiny.rb ported to use Javascript? (Some Googler already has a Lua-esque VM for tiny.rb as her 20% project.)
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#14It's pretty clear that jashkenas is the Chuck Norris of Javascript.
For the last week I've been using CoffeeScript along with Backbone.js & Underscore.js (all backed by jashkenas) and it's given me a much greater appreciation for the power of javascript.
There is some clear talent behind these projects.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now if someone made a Cappuccino like framework on top of CoffeeScript instead of Objective-J I'd be in heaven :) Out of curiosity, what are you making?
We are developing an open-source MMO on node.js and WebGL - http://github.com/feisty
Is there something I can do to get involved with this project?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now if someone made a Cappuccino like framework on top of CoffeeScript instead of Objective-J I'd be in heaven :) Out of curiosity, what are you making?
We are developing an open-source MMO on node.js and WebGL - http://github.com/feisty
I want to build one too. Any chance the repo's receive meaningful README's ?
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#17Would people be interested in a Ruby-oriented project like this? Say, tiny.rb ported to use Javascript? (Some Googler already has a Lua-esque VM for tiny.rb as her 20% project.)
There are a number of existing projects that compile a partial Ruby into JS:
* https://github.com/superchris/rubyjs
* https://github.com/jessesielaff/red
* https://github.com/tlrobinson/cappruby
I'm afraid that Ruby semantics don't align too well with JavaScript semantics. Things as basic as numbers, method dispatch, and variable scoping don't work the same way. Either you end up with perfectly valid code written in one that doesn't run on the other, or you have an extremely slow Ruby interpreter implemented on top of JavaScript.
This is the main reason why CoffeeScript tries to stick as close to JavaScript as possible.
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#18It's pretty clear that jashkenas is the Chuck Norris of Javascript.
For the last week I've been using CoffeeScript along with Backbone.js & Underscore.js (all backed by jashkenas) and it's given me a much greater appreciation for the power of javascript. There is some clear talent behind these projects.
It's amazing how much more I like Javascript under the guise of CoffeeScript. JS got a lot right, and when you get rid of (most) of the wrong, it really shines.
Here's hoping for a larger community adoption!
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#19The war on curlies is over, curlies lost.
Good to see new languages improving upon syntax, readability is key and a great way to gain adoption. As Norvig said, it is easier for him to explain an algorithm in python than any other language. Well, now CoffeeScript has just passed that test too.
Brendan Eich is also adapting many good things from CoffeeScript to JS.next, validating the point that coffee, in its short life, has been able to influence other great language designers.
And that says a lot about CoffeeScript and its potential.
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#20Congrats, Jeremy. Hope you have some well earned rest over the holidays.