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CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning

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I think it's quite obvious the title is deliberately misleading to get more people to read it.

Sure, but that doesn't excuse people from commenting without reading it.

The title is still misleading. It doesn't become clear that the author is advocating CoffeeScript until the end of the article.

Re: CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning

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I taught a new programmer in my department JavaScript and CoffeeScript. Yesterday he told me he saw Notch coding a 2d version of minecraft in Java at a hackaton online, and how weird is the difference between CoffeeScript and Java. Maybe for us there's nothing new in CoffeeScript. Heck, the patterns of programming in javascript, callbacks, functional programming, prototypes, closures, the context of this -- for him i…

Interesting that you point out Twitter Bootstrap -- which to me is becoming the great equalizer for new product/startup websites and a hallmark of lack of creativity or any sign of thoughtful design. Sure, the UI is great, much like the design patterns that Coffee script creates -- but what it signifies is a "dumbing down" of design much like Coffee script does to it's programmers. In Java, good design patterns are d…

Creativity is awesome. not in the UI. For me it means less time focusing on my product and more on remembering to make button:active look like it's pressed. for my users it means another UI to learn.

Think about trello. After two minutes on the site I was like "hellll no, I ain't gonna learn how to use this!". The UI scared me, it was too different with too little explanations.

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