Why I Don't Use CoffeeScript (2011)

Post by sanderjd » Sat, Nov 22, 2014, 7:53 PM UTC

Bahamut wrote: post #18

sanderjd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious what issues you've run into with implicit returns. I haven't traced a single problem to implicit returns in many years of using languages that have them.

Not me so much as others - it's a very common problem I've seen when debugging other people's CoffeeScript code. CoffeeScript is a bit of a different situation than other languages since with other languages, it's the norm (i.e. Ruby) - however, with JavaScript, it is not something inherent in JS, so when people jump from JS to CoffeeScript, there is a disconnect.

Post by untog » Mon, Nov 24, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #22

untog wrote: post #3

After everything, CoffeeScript is for people who hate JavaScript. It isn't, though. It's for people who want to use a variant of JavaScript with less syntax sugar, which is exactly what the start of the post says. And the example of a single function does make it look like CoffeeScript is a waste of time. However, I love it when working with promises. What used to be: promiseFunc() .then(function(a) { return doSometh…

Actually, in this exact case the better Javascript example would be: promiseFunc().then(doSomething).then(doAnotherThing)