CoffeeScript | Javascript/Etc - Languages
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When my co-founder Jim first came across CoffeeScript, I was skeptical. I had picked up all I knew about JavaScript through hard-earned battle scars.
Tech Lore - A Skeptic’s CoffeeScript Experience
For example, at Posterous, they use [CoffeeScript] but don’t have any real JavaScript engineers. — Oscar Godson in Should You Learn CoffeeScript?
In Which I Tell You to Stop Whining About CoffeeScript - Adam Singer
IcedCoffeeScript
Iced CoffeeScript is a superset of CoffeeScript . The iced interpreter is a drop-in replacement for the standard coffee interpreter; it will interpret almost all existing CoffeeScript programs. IcedCoffeeScript (ICS) adds two new keywords: await and defer . These additions simply and powerfully streamline asynchronous control flow, both on the server and on the browser. Say goodbye to callback pyramids; say adios to massive code rewrites when synchronization requirements change slightly.
Harry Brundage , a co-worker of mine at Shopify , does a lot of CoffeeScript development and said he would love to be able to do CoffeeScript right from the console in Chrome's Web Inspector. I asked Paul Irish , a "dev relations guy" at Google, to point me in the right direction on building just such a thing.
