What usefulness does coffeescript have? It seems to be canceled out by the build step at best.
--Josh On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Mark Hahn <m...@hahnca.com> wrote: > Adding thin arrow is about 0.1% of coffeescript's usefulness. > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> On Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> >> > there are a lot more JS programmers than CS programmers out there. >> >> And there are a lot more PHP programmers than JS. Popularity is not an >> excuse to stay in the past. >> >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:18 PM, josh <macmillan.jos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 1) for any open source project your goal is to get as many people as >> possible participating. >> there are a lot more JS programmers than CS programmers out there. >> by choosing CS you are reducing the number of people who can contribute to >> your project. >> >> 2) ECMAScript 6 is going to add the -> operator >> >> So far, this is not the case - but the book isn't closed on adding thin >> arrow. >> >> >> >> so if you like CS since you type less, this advantage is about to >> disappear (at least on the server). >> >> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Joshua Holbrook Head of Support Nodejitsu Inc. j...@nodejitsu.com -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
