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I don't like the Windows experience of CoffeScript. That's what's holding me back. I think I would use it if it had better Windows support. As far as I know CoffeScript requires node.js, npm and cygwin. Am I wrong?
https://github.com/alisey/CoffeeScript-Compiler-for-Windows
And it doesn't require cygwin. I haven't tried it myself but it's the route I would go.
I guess at the end of the day syntax didn't end up being a killer feature that I needed. I still think CoffeeScript is awesome, but it doesn't solve problems that I can't already solve in JavaScript.
This is going to be a very interesting poll result. Even 5 or 10% penetration is something remarkable, for a language as widely-used as JavaScript. If you feel like providing any more color beyond your vote, your impressions after using CoffeeScript in anger -- I'd love to hear 'em.
Unfortunately, this poll isn't scientific and you won't be able to trust the results no matter what it says. I expect the poll will show much higher CoffeeScript penetration than it has in reality.
I started using it last month, on production code. I work as a Javascript programmer in an otherwise all-Java software shop. I come from a Python background. I really love it. I have Vim all set up to auto-complete it, to syntax highlight, and to auto-compile whenever I save. The bad news is: No Eclipse plugins, no notepad++ plugins. etc. So the only other devs who can work on it are on Mac and Linux (which to be fai…
I'm using the former. It's usable, but lacks somethings like fixing indentation errors automatically, and auto-completion. Also the default colors under twilight theme are unreadable, so you have to modify those yourself.
Missing option: have moved to CoffeeScript but switched back to JavaScript.
The other day I found the code to a shoot-em-up I wrote in 2002 and it ran in Chrome with no changes required! Sure, the code was very "DHTML"-y, but that's pretty cool!
This is going to be a very interesting poll result. Even 5 or 10% penetration is something remarkable, for a language as widely-used as JavaScript. If you feel like providing any more color beyond your vote, your impressions after using CoffeeScript in anger -- I'd love to hear 'em.
I've never done front end before (I just hate the JS syntax, so I've avoided it, besides a few jsonp requests) but with CoffeeScript I was persuaded to give it a try. Here is my problem. Nothing is Google-able. Even basic things that I get caught up on the answer on IRC is usually "look up how to do it in JS, and then reform it to CS". Maybe I'm starting on the wrong stuff, but even though the syntax is wonderful, ac…
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What's wrong with jQuery callbacks? ;)
jQuery generally abuses (or takes advantage of, depending on your perspective) the value of "this" in its callback functions, in places where it would really be better to have an explicit argument. For example: AccountView.prototype.render = function() { $(".account").click(function(e) { // `this` is now the same as `e.currentTarget` // But `e.target` is also useful. // And you what you really want is for `this` // t…
AccountView.prototype.render = function() {
$(".account").click( { that: this }, function(e) {
// 'that' now holds a reference to AccountView
});
};
$(".account").click( (function(that) {
return function(e) {
// 'that' now holds a reference to AccountView
})(this);
});I evaluated CS but ended up using Script# in my latest project at my day job, mainly because we are Microsoft shop and it will be easier for other C# developers to jump in if the need arises without learning a new syntax.