The main reason to not use coffee script is it is a fracture in the JavaScript community.
A lot more people will interact with your open source project in a nice fashion if you use JavaScript. If the project is closed source use whatever you want. On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > What usefulness does coffeescript have? It seems to be canceled out by the > build step at best. > > First of all, the compile adds about one second to the debug cycle. You > forget it is there. And setup to add it to the cycle is one line in the > script. > > For all the advantages of CS see > http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ . They are far too numerous > to list here. > > I have written in nothing but CS, server-side and client-side, for 1.5 > years and now I can't stand JS. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
