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by lowe 5021 days ago
heh, I included this line because it's true, but that whole section is about why "use coffee because you like python" is the wrong tldr.
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The rest of the article is about how you prefer CoffeeScript syntax, so how is that tldr wrong?
Because an accurate summary would actually summarize what they said, not just list their bias. I would summarize it as, "The Dropbox team prefers the readability of Coffeescript, the conversion took one week, they reduced the lines of code in their codebase by 20%, and there was no impact on functionality."