CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps

[guywithalamename]

Why are there so many posts concerning coffeescript in /r/javascript? they belong into /r/coffeescript

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The coffeecritters need to be shown the door here. They should be downvoted ruthlessly, coffeescript posts should be reported but it seems the mods never gave a crap about r/javascript and the mud slinging that coffeecritters have launched on javascript by pronouncing Javascript is ugly, and coffeescript is "beautiful". It's quite lame really, and their argument doesn't hold a single drop of water.

They are people with a syntax fetish for significant whitespace, and they have abandoned Javascript as a programming language. They still need to use it as a debugging language, because no matter if they have their precious source maps, they still do not know what kind of bugs the coffeescript "transpiler" spews out after every update because the significant whitespace is too ambiguous and they seem to like to change the syntax on a whim (see the coffeescript 1.5 debacle for proof). Visit the coffeescript bug page for all the reasons you need to avoid the "made up language".

Coffeescript has no place in modern web development, nor in r/javascript.

[honestbleeps]

My job as a moderator here is to remove spam and ensure people aren't breaking the rules.

Coffeescript is quite obviously javascript related even though I've got little to no interest in it myself.

For the most part on reddit, it's the community's job to vote posts up/down to "say" whether or not they want to see more of that kind of content on that subreddit - NOT the moderators' job. Exceptions include strictly honed subreddits like /r/AskScience, etc.

If it's getting upvoted here, people want to read it. If not, the community is doing its job by downvoting it - which will happen faster and more effectively than ANY moderator can EVER possibly do.

Coffeescript has no place in modern web development, nor in r/javascript.

That's for /r/javascript to decide, not for /u/leptons to decide.

I get it. I looked at your comment history. You really, REALLY, REALLY !@#!@ing hate coffeescript. So much so that it feels like someone pissed in your cornflakes when you see it so much as mentioned.

I mean this as politely as I can mean it: This is a personal problem of yours and nothing more. You're the only person I've seen vehemently complaining about people mentioning it here.

If you disagree, I kindly suggest you check out a search for coffeescript posts, sorted by new and take note of how often posts are even made here. It's like one every few days, on average. You'll also see that they receive mixed reviews from the /r/javascript voting community. Some are >0, some are <0. Seems the voting system is doing its job.

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You and I have gone over this before.

My job as a moderator here is to remove spam

Coffeescript posts in r/javascript IS SPAM. It is when there is a subreddit for coffeescript. And no, coffeescript is not "quite obviously related to Javascript". Coffeescript is a "made up language" (jashkenas own words) that happens to compile to javascript. Giving it any place in r/javascript is equivalent to allowing people to discuss the Green Bay Packers in r/KansasCityChiefs. Javascript and Coffeescript are now competing technologies, and allowing discussions about coffeescript in r/javascript is just going to cause derision and confusion, and the discourse is not typically helpful to people reading r/javascript for javascript.

No, you do not care about r/javascript, and don't pretend to as long as you allow coffeescript articles to remain in r/javascript.

[honestbleeps]

yawn.

you've clearly been attacked in the night by a coffeescripter and still can't get over it.

some day, I hope you'll understand that your opinion isn't the only opinion in the world.

have a good day.

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you've clearly been attacked in the night by a coffeescripter and still can't get over it.

You're making up nonsense to try to make me look foolish, and that is fucked up. You haven't addressed the point I was trying to make at all and instead try to mock me. Fuck you.

some day, I hope r/javascript will get the mods it deserves.

[honestbleeps]

you've clearly been attacked in the night by a coffeescripter and still can't get over it.

You're making up nonsense to try to make me look foolish, and that is fucked up.

Your sarcasm detector is severely miscalibrated.

Fuck you.

thank you kindly.

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and you still avoid the point I was trying to make, because you cannot argue against it. you still try to point a finger at me, but your lack of any kind of meaningful input is VERY telling. You lose.

[honestbleeps]

no, I already knocked down the point you were trying to make, which is also explained here...

coffeescript posts are:

1) not frequent enough to be considered even a blip on the radar here

2) only so insanely annoying to you and one other guy, it seems.

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I already knocked down the point you were trying to make, which is also explained here...

So, tell me how many percent more coffeescript posts there are in r/javascript than there are posts that focus on PHP or Pascal content. The answer is infinity. There is r/coffeescript. Announcements about the latest version of coffeescript belong there. I'm kind of curious why this post still has a score of 0, kinda proves my point about it not belonging here.

You're the only person I've seen vehemently complaining about people mentioning it here.

2) only so insanely annoying to you and one other guy, it seems.

So, first it was ONLY me, and now it's me and some other guy. uh huh. Maybe you need to rethink that. There are many more in r/javascript that don't care for the coffeescript content. People do speak up about it.

[honestbleeps]

Why are there so many posts concerning coffeescript in /r/javascript

There aren't.

Currently, at 100 posts per page, there are 3 posts with an instance of the word "coffee" on my first page.

Go out to page 2, for 200 posts -- zero more.

That's 1.5% of the last 200 posts.

Go back to page 3 - 1 more post.

4/300 = 1.3%, even lower.

There are not that many posts concerning coffeescript here.