Kaffeine: extended Javascript

Agreed, CoffeeScript is much more extensive, and in most cases (from what I can see) prettier. Kaffeine piping seems cute though. Maybe the author could join forces with the CoffeeScript project?

Note on CoffeeScript: it took me _one_ .coffee script to get used to the syntax, and I'm never ever gonna write vanilla JS again if possible.

Re: Kaffeine: extended Javascript

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Post by jasonwatkinspdx » Thu, May 12, 2011, 9:39 AM UTC

I like how the object.method! notation for async callbacks works in both assignment rvalues as well as in method invocation parameters.

Re: Kaffeine: extended Javascript

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Post by exit » Thu, May 12, 2011, 10:20 AM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #4

nddrylliog wrote: post #3

small typo: "Imlicit"

Also, should be JavaScript not "Javascript." A small quibble perhaps, but capitalising the 's' renders the name properly. In addition, "It compiles directly into javascript [sic] that is very similar..." Similar to what? The English could use a little work; just sayin'.

> It compiles directly into javascript that is very similar, readable and line for line equivalent to the input (you can beautify if you like).

that makes sense to me.. the javascript it produces is very similar to the source kaffeine code.

Re: Kaffeine: extended Javascript

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Post by weepy » Thu, May 12, 2011, 10:22 AM UTC

BasDirks wrote: post #6

vnorby wrote: post #5

Why use this over coffeescript?

Agreed, CoffeeScript is much more extensive, and in most cases (from what I can see) prettier. Kaffeine piping seems cute though. Maybe the author could join forces with the CoffeeScript project? Note on CoffeeScript: it took me _one_ .coffee script to get used to the syntax, and I'm never ever gonna write vanilla JS again if possible.

Don't think that CoffeeScript is much more extensive - Kaffeine has most of the features. Other advantage is that the output Javascript is very similar to the input, unlike Coffee where there's various implied closures and magic T_T

Re: Kaffeine: extended Javascript

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Post by repsilat » Thu, May 12, 2011, 10:28 AM UTC

A shame about the name - "Kaffeine" is also a fairly popular media player for KDE. The media player has the wikipedia page (with no "_(Software)" disambiguation suffix), and takes seven of the first ten hits on Google.