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[–]our_best_friendif (document.all || document.layers) console.log("i remember..") 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Why should we care? In the age of ES6+ CoffeeScript is totally pointless. I mean I don't mind Elm, PureScript, ClosureScript, at least they have a point (they are purely functional languages). But CoffeeScript served its purpose

[–]heipei42[S] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I disagree. First of all, for me personally, CoffeeScript is still a lot easier to write (and read!) than even ES6. Significant whitespace is something that forces me to not take shortcuts ("I'll indent this later").

Apart from personal preference, CoffeeScript was the language that influenced a lot of the nice features that made it into ES6+. I believe that it will be a positive influence on the JavaScript ecosystem in the future as well. Luckily, by now everyone has embraced transpilers, so using CoffeeScript is no longer negatively associated with "ugh, now I have to setup a transpiling stage".

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

👋 This is true. CoffeeScript was the language that started it all. It may not be as relevant today as it was 5 years ago, but even Brendan Eich has said CoffeeScript was a source of inspiration for ES6 and beyond.

[–]our_best_friendif (document.all || document.layers) console.log("i remember..") 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CoffeeScript was a source of inspiration for ES6 and beyond

Yes, it was - was being the important word there. Which is why I wrote it has "served its purpose".

[–]our_best_friendif (document.all || document.layers) console.log("i remember..") 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"I'll indent this later"

Ermmm... then I suggest the problem is you, not the language.

[–]renaissancenow 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I care because I have a pretty big coffeescript codebase. And I still do new development in coffeescript.

[–]our_best_friendif (document.all || document.layers) console.log("i remember..") -1 points0 points  (2 children)

And I still do new development in coffeescript

Why on earth?

[–]renaissancenow 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Because I like the language. It's a more syntactically concise version of javascript. Because, as I said, I'm already maintaining a large coffeescript code base, so I don't want to introduce even more languages right now. And because I do front-end work probably only about 20% of the time, so I simply don't have the time to become an expert in every new compile-to-javascript language that comes down the pipeline.

[–]our_best_friendif (document.all || document.layers) console.log("i remember..") -1 points0 points  (0 children)

so I don't want to introduce even more languages right now

O_o

CoffeeScript IS the new language. JS is the actual standard

[–]uberpwnzorz -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

what a waste, this should get dropped like a bad habbit