[frik]

What are the current plans about Coffeescript? I just looked at the code on Github, it says 85% Javascript, 12% Coffeescript. Is the plan to port the 12% to JS6? (and hopefully not Typescript)

Great work with Atom editor. I successfully conviced my friends to move from VSC to Atom on macOS.

[maxbrunsfeld]

Thanks! Yeah all of the CoffeeScript in atom/atom should be gone in a few months probably. We use plain JS now.

It'll probably take a while before there's no more CoffeeScript in the entire Atom org. We're gradually converting the code to JS as we come upon it for other reasons.

[frik]

Thanks!

[free_everybody]

What's wrong with Typescript? Also, why does it matter to you? Genuinely curious.

[z3t4]

It's like having Leonard Cohen transpiled to Justin Bieber. Now look at it from the Justin Bieber fans point of view, why would they listen to Leonard Cohen in order to hear Justin Bieber ? Even though research says Leonard Cohen makes better music! From Leonard Cohen fan's point of view it doesn't matter as they only hear Leonard Cohen, not Justin.

[free_everybody]

I'm having a really hard time making sense of that analogy...

[frik]

Curious, Why does it matter to you?

On the Atom.io website https://atom.io/ it reads "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". Well I can code in JavaScript 5 and 6. I love love it when a project sticks to web standard, and not have to worry about slangs I don't care about.

> Typescript is great at catching bugs

The same with JavaScript. Google Closure compiler and anyway most IDEs "understand" JavaScript too and catch bugs. JavaScript is dynamically typed not typeless.

[marcoms]

Typescript is great at catching bugs which would trickle down to the end user

[free_everybody]

I was surprised to see someone who cared what style of javascript a program is written in, especially if they aren't an active contributor. Maybe you are?