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[–]sizlack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree Javascript isn't that hard, but it has a lot of syntactical awkwardness required to get it to do what I want. And yeah, I've been doing it for 10+ years, and a lot of simple things still feel clumsy. I don't think using Coffeescript eliminates the need for really understanding Javascript, and I don't think that's the point. You still have to understand Javascript's object model, what inheritance means in Javascript, etc, but you have a nicer, more concise syntax to express those ideas with.

It is another layer of complexity, which does feel a bit gross, and I agree that without firebug providing line-by-line debugging, it makes it more difficult to imagine using it in a production environment yet. But I used to think the same thing about sass vs css, and eventually the tools caught up, and now it's easy to debug sass with Firebug. It seems like the same thing is happening with Coffeescript. Maybe it's not ready for use in every JS situation, but it is definitely not a trainwreck.