I think Coffeescript is not a difficult language to learn. It was quite easy for me to learn it. It improves many cumbersome aspects of js. I think it'd be a real letdown to use js instead of coffee. And anyone can write pure js plugins to annotator.
Gergely 2014.06.18. 10:57 keltezéssel, Robert Casties írta: > On 18.06.14 09:20, Kristof Csillag wrote: >> What do you mean by "switching"? >> >> 1. Deciding to accept new incoming JS code, alongside new incoming >> Coffee code? >> 2. Deciding that all new incoming code must be JS? >> 3. Removing all the Coffee, and replacing it all with JS? (Either by >> automatic compilation, or manually?) >> >> Anyway, I am not sure if it is much of a barrier. >> >> When I entered the project, making sense of the internals were >> *significantly* more difficult to me than making sense of Coffee, which >> was new to me at that time. > Same with me. Learning to use Coffee was a rather small hurdle (and it > makes writing good code easier) compared to setting up the build process > and understanding the moving parts of the code. > > I think the build process does not become much simpler without coffee > and you would have to invent your own Javascript patterns for things > Coffee does if you wanted to convert everything to plain JS. > > But I don't write much code in Annotator-core so everything you prefer > would be fine with me. > > Best > Robert > >> On 2014-06-18 05:37, Randall Leeds wrote: >>> Anyone opposed? >>> >>> Might lower the tooling and learning barrier. >>> >>> I've been a defender of it and invested some time in the tooling but >>> I'd be okay moving away from it. >>> >>> No thought of timing here, re 2.0 or anything. Just taking the >>> temperature. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> annotator-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/annotator-dev >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/annotator-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> annotator-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/annotator-dev >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/annotator-dev >> > _______________________________________________ annotator-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/annotator-dev Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/annotator-dev
