I echo what John says. I used CoffeeScript for a couple years and grew really frustrated with it. I'm now using ES6 and I have everything I really care about and a much better supported environment and a more sure future.
Destructuring assignment, lexical "this" closures, and a module system. It's pretty nice. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:20 PM John Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're using a transpiler instead of commonjs I would look into using > ES6/2015 + babel. CoffeeScript has weird internals that prevent > developers from building good linters around it but ES6/2015 has very good > lint tools for it. > > On Friday, September 4, 2015, Joel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would suggest using CoffeeScript. It does a pretty good job of making >> JavaScript more Python-like (and Ruby-like): list comprehensions, much >> cleaner whitespace-based syntax. I've been using it for a while now to >> write a GUI in Backbone.js and I'm liking it. With source maps you can put >> breakpoints in your CoffeeScript code and you'll rarely need to look at the >> JavaScript source. >> >> On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 2:08:30 PM UTC-7, Michael wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I'm pretty tired of working with JavaScript to make a web UI for my >>> pyramid app. Any suggestions on a web framework that can manipulate the DOM >>> like JavaScript can but isn't JavaScript? >>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "pylons-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
