+1 Javascript over Coffeescript On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 6:54 PM Josh Forbes <jdforbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding is that Rails was moving away from CoffeeScript and > towards modern JavaScript. This seems like it would be a welcome addition. > > On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 8:28:18 PM UTC-4, Ryan Castner wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I made a post on the issue tracker ( >> https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/33331) and was directed here. My >> question is about the Rails actioncable library that is currently written >> in CoffeeScript, my question is as follows: >> >> Is there a reason why this library is sticking to CoffeeScript? >> >> I would be willing to re-implement the library in JavaScript if there are >> no major roadblocks. CoffeeScript was a great tool in its time, but today >> having the library be written in JavaScript would make things a lot easier >> for new contributors. I wanted to add two separate PRs to the library, adding >> dynamic authorization support >> <https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/33064>, and supporting react >> native/vue native <https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/33332>. >> However, having the library written in CoffeeScript poses more roadblocks >> for me because I now need to brush back up on a language that hasn't been >> in use really for a couple years. >> >> I wanted to ask here first and make sure I am not going to be wasting >> effort, if there was some legacy reason or support issue that forces the >> library to continue to be in CoffeeScript. >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
