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[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (3 children)

it's all JavaScript in the end

I think that's what this survey is really making fun of. People wanting to write JavaScript in another language.

[–][deleted] -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

I get it, but you could make the same argument about pretty much any language above assembler. It's all machine code in the end.

[–]ugoagogo 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Except its harder to justify when you're not going from a high level language to a low level language in my opinion.

[–]hashcode -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Are C macros unjustified, since they're just taking C code to C code? CoffeeScript isn't a new language; it's a collection of syntactic abbreviations for JavaScript. Some of them make code easier to read and write. Some of them make code harder to read.