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by mattmiller 5192 days ago
The only constructive comment in the thread has been sunk by downvotes. I don't know why people hate these pre-processors so much. Coffeescript threads always have a fair amount of people complaining although Coffeescript has been pretty successful.

I think the best part of the pre-processors is that it does not force the entire community to adopt the syntax and allows some to play with new language features.
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wvenable 5192 days ago
Pre-processors start at -100 points -- the complexity of adding to the tool chain, the leaky abstractions, the extra difficulty in debugging, the fact you have to know two languages well to be effective, and so on. A pre-processor has to be really good and really clever to be worth the overhead.
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mattmiller 5192 days ago
The point is: if you don't like it you don't have to use it. PHP still stands in its current form. Snow may become popular with a minority of more adventurous devs and develop into something that you may want to use.
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wvenable 5191 days ago
The fact that you don't have to use it means that it's beyond criticism? What point are you trying to make? You don't have to use PHP either.
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