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CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

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Re: CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

#21

Post by jashkenas »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #19

The 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 li…

I agree. If nothing else, CoffeeScript will be a success if some of its ideas find their way into a future version of JavaScript. It's been very gratifying to see folks like Crockford and Eich giving it a serious look:

* http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/11/25/Hobgoblin-of-Little-...

* http://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/

* http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs...

Re: CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

#22

Post by jashkenas »

camperman wrote: post #11

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!

Satoshi Murakami deserves a large portion of the credit for the changes leading up to 1.0 -- his Coco dialect of CoffeeScript has been a strong influence on the features and optimizations that happened this fall.

https://github.com/satyr/coco#readme

Re: CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

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Post by m0nastic »

jashkenas wrote: post #21
Kilimanjaro wrote: post #19

The 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 li…

I agree. If nothing else, CoffeeScript will be a success if some of its ideas find their way into a future version of JavaScript. It's been very gratifying to see folks like Crockford and Eich giving it a serious look: * http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/11/25/Hobgoblin-of-Little-... * http://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/ * http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs...

I just wanted to point out that the first link you posted had a great discussion in the comments.

Re: CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

#27

Post by drewda »

dmix wrote: post #14
cjoh wrote: post #7

It'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.

And some clear talent behind the great documentation, too!

Re: CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

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Post by tectonic »

aonic wrote: post #10
tectonic wrote: post #4

Great 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?

The web UI side of a readinglist manager, complete with offline syncing.

Re: CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

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Post by pyrotechnique »

m0nastic wrote: post #26
jashkenas wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. If nothing else, CoffeeScript will be a success if some of its ideas find their way into a future version of JavaScript. It's been very gratifying to see folks like Crockford and Eich giving it a serious look: * http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/11/25/Hobgoblin-of-Little-... * http://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/ * http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs...

I just wanted to point out that the first link you posted had a great discussion in the comments.

Much like this discussion ^w^

Re: CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

#30

Post by pyrotechnique »

kennet wrote: post #23

Been holding this one back for awhile, but: Are there any talks, plans or otherwise on incorporating other languages for client-side scripting? I'd really just like to get away from JS in general :(

There are yes. I'll try to dig them up shortly.

IMHO it will never happen in the sense you imagine it but we'll see.

In the meantime you may want to check out emscripten (http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/). It is a JavaScript backend for LLVM which ultimately leads to the same functionality as having other languages on the client.

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