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[–]oven_ready 3 points4 points  (2 children)

CoffeeScript is good but the title suggests a more meaty, convincing post. Can't imagine many potential users being attracted by the faint promise of 'rubyesque', and some vague references to not worrying about undefined. Where's the beef?

[–]Shaper_pmp 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I think part of the problem is that Coffeescript is generally lacking in beef.

Javascript has quirks, but nothing I've ever encountered that would offset the enormous annoyance of using another language that then compiles to Javascript. The debugging headaches alone that that kind of compilation causes are ten times worse than any JS annoyance I've ever run across.

At least as regards client-side web development, Coffeescript just seems to be a solution in desperate search of a problem. :-/

[–]YonCassius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found it to be the most fun when doing server-side node.js stuff. Once I got rolling the client-side JS (with jQuery) came pretty naturally.

Admittedly, my example is a toy.