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by myared 3743 days ago
Couldn't agree with this more. Specifically, the lost hours due to CoffeeScript.
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voxic11 3743 days ago
Typescript really isn't comparable to coffeescript
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badminton1 3743 days ago
CoffeeScript has the worst tooling ever. QBasic in the 90s had better tooling than CoffeeScript: an integrated editor, debugger, compiler, type validation... let's give it all up to code in vomitscript.
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plugnburn 3742 days ago
Have you ever tried Atom? Its interface is written in HTML5 + CoffeeScript, and it targets CoffeeScript as the primary language. Tell the GitHub guys about tooling...

But besides, judging a language based on available tooling is akin to judging a CPU based on the computer casing looks.

For a real programmer, GNU Nano with appropriate highlighting should be enough. If a language calls itself "high-level" but makes the coding process hard without tooling, it deserves no attention at all.

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badminton1 3736 days ago
A real programmer makes mistakes, and a real programmer automates tasks. That's what programmers are for.
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