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by msutherl 4865 days ago
Indeed, the claim that JavaScript developers can't read CoffeeScript seems odd to me. As a novice JS developer, I could read CoffeeScript the first time I saw it and it took me a day to be fluent.

For me there's a noticeable productivity and enjoyment boost from the more terse syntax and that makes it more than worth it for me.
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elliotanderson 4865 days ago
There's not doubt it is readable (I'm quite a fan of the language too) - the problem is with writing it as a novice. This post highlights some of the issues with magic and whitespace:

http://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-us...

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msutherl 4865 days ago
I don't know, you would just never write "foo = bar->". It looks bad and it's wrong.

White-space sensitive languages are great because they reward you for writing with style, plus you don't have to worry about matching and aligning braces all the time.

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