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by gumballhead 3927 days ago
Coffescript is a powerful language meant for beginners, but you really need some experience with it to understand its quirks and that a lot of it should be avoided.

So basically, it's JavaScript with a compile step that doesn't do static analysis.

But back in 2012 when the first lines of FarmLogs were written, it was pretty cool. And that's a lesson in itself about why it really doesn't matter what stack you use.