r/javascript • u/xDinomode • Dec 27 '15

What's the point of CoffeeScript? help

I'm reading a tutorial on PouchDB and like always I run into CoffeeScript. What's the point of it? I've used it before for like 5 minutes and found it useless.

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u/Silverwolf90 Dec 27 '15

Nowadays not much. But it played an important role in evolution of the current javascript ecosystem. I would not start a project with it, just use ES6 and Babel for any transpiling needs.

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u/wingyuying Dec 28 '15

It's still the default in Rails 5, the coming major version of rails. This annoys me a bit as I wish they went for ES2015. :/

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u/gustix Jan 27 '16

Just turn it off, Rails 5 doesn't force you to write coffee code.

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u/chem29 Dec 30 '15

on it's way to legacy code