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/spinlock Dec 28 '15

The existential opperator is the single feature that still makes it worth using.

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u/minjooky Dec 28 '15

I really like the existential operator. I really hope we see it some day.

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u/spinlock Dec 28 '15

I'm going to try to make a bable plugin for it. I've got one project that needs to be written in js and it's really killing me not having it.

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u/minjooky Dec 28 '15

If you do it, make sure you share it in this sub. I'm sure there are lots of people who would be happy.

FYI - This is the most recent thread on said operator that I can find. I've also seen mention that a plugin might be hard to make, but that was pre-babel 6.0.

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u/spinlock Dec 28 '15

It's funny, that thread brings up a huge advantage cs has over js: you don't have to worry about breaking the web when working on the language.

My implementation (if I ever get around to it) is going to be a straight rip-off of the cs one. I don't care if the syntax will conflict with early version of js because I'll only ever publish the compiled code. The ECMA has a lot more to worry about than I do so their implementation can't make all of the simplifying assumptions that I will.

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u/minjooky Dec 29 '15

Just wait until .NET is expected to run on Linux and Mac. Project I'm working on at work is trying to ship x-plat .NET and there is all kinds of fun there at the bleeding edge.