You can learn whitespace the programming language
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)) in a matter of
minutes, it's a very small barrier.. but that doesn't mean it's a good
programming language for a project..
On Monday 23 July 2012 at 11:36, Eric Biesterfeld wrote:
> Let me give another vote of confidence for CoffeeScript.
>
> As a seasoned Javascript developer, it took me about four hours to become
> comfortable with CS. It is a very small barrier, but the advantage is that it
> makes doing the right thing in JS easy. functions are automatically wrapped,
> variables aren't accidentally global, and the boilerplate in JS mostly goes
> away, allowing the logic to shine through.
>
> var x = (function() {
> ... code ...
> })();
>
> anyone?
>
> Even if you choose to release the project in JS ultimately, it may be
> worthwhile to write the first version in CS and compile to JS before you
> release. While there are some peculiarities that show up in CS-compiled code,
> (like returning every last instruction), these are easily cleaned up, and the
> code will be cleaner in the end.
>
> On Sunday, July 22, 2012 3:42:12 PM UTC+3, Alan Hoffmeister wrote:
> > You guys are just killing me, I was planning to write with coffee script,
> > but pure JS seems to be a better idea, I was planning async on the
> > templates, but async is evil in there, now I was suggested to don't use
> > MongoDB, and guess what db I was planning to use? hahaha
> >
> > @mlegenhausen, what was your trouble with NoSQL?
> >
> > This is a real awesome discussion, I could really process a lot of useful
> > information, thanks for everyone that can/could spend their 1 cent here
>
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