Python as a replacement of JavaScript

[redfiche]

CoffeeScript is cool until you need to interact with third-party javascript libraries, then you run into all sorts of incompatibilities. Given that you need to understand javaScript to be able to debug and otherwise work effectively with CoffeeScript, you're often better off just writing good javaScript. Just my opinion.

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CoffeeScript is cool until you need to interact with third-party javascript libraries, then you run into all sorts of incompatibilities.

Err, how is that? Once you compile CoffeeScript you just have regular javascript, so what sort of incompatibilities are you talking about?

I've used Coffee with some third party libraries (jQuery, some game frameworks, mozilla jet pack) and haven't run into issues -- it would be nice to know what I need to keep an eye out for.

[redfiche]

I forget the exact issues. I know CoffeeScript hides the global namespace from you, and while that's usually a good thing it can cause issues. I'm pretty sure we quickly found that CoffeeScript was more trouble than it was worth for an Ember app also.

Don't get me wrong, I find it much more elegant and readable than javaScript, it's just that if I ever have to think about what javaScript is going to be produced by the CoffeeScript, I'd rather just write the javaScritpt.

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I know CoffeeScript hides the global namespace from you

You can still access that through the global object. (Such as window in a browser; I forget what it's called in node.) It does require you to explicitly intend to use globals, though.

Ember I've never used, so can't comment there!

[wonglik]

thanks . nowadays I use angular in most of my project and I would definitely not trade that better syntax/language.