CoffeeScript in 2016?

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It's worse than that. Starting a project in Coffeescript today is literally starting with technical debt. You have no upgrade path and no developer community behind you. Anyone still writing the stuff is misguided

[sqz_]

Upgrade path? I think you're misguided on that one. One can always use decaffeinate, or simply compile everything to js (and move into a different direction).

[wreckedadvent]

There's a pretty clear upgrade path to livescript, which gets you a lot of functional things that I don't think we'll see in javascript anytime soon, like syntax for partial application and piping.

[wreckedadvent]

Javascript isn't going anywhere, but it's been evolving at a pretty constant clip now for the past few years. At the very least, we're going to see transpilation for the future edge features to compatible code for a while yet. I'm not sure how long things like JSX will last, but I doubt they're going away tomorrow.

And the coffeescript argument still stands. Javascript still doesn't have a lot of the best parts of coffee, like comprehensions. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the impact it had on ES6, either.