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by meryn 4845 days ago
Looks cool! How do you gauge the difficulty of adding support for CoffeeScript to this?

Re the indiegogo campaign: I think you should consider adding an extra supporter tier between 25 USD and 1000 USD. The 200 USD tier of CoffeeScript Redux http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelficarra/make-a-be... brought in over 20% of the total amount pledged.

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Interesting. Their 200 dollar tier is basically my 'all backers' tier (name in a readme file). But I can probably come up with something slightly more valuable to offer at ~250€.

As for CoffeeScript support -- the only major piece missing there is an error-tolerant CoffeeScript parser. Given that, one could simply run the CoffeeScript compiler over code, and analyze the output. There'd be some shuffling with source maps needed to translate source locations in the various representations of the code, but that's a solved problem. Well, and of course you might see some translation artifacts. The CS output code is semantically close to the input, but there are differences.

a signed copy of your book? :}
I don't know Marijn's hourly rate, but perhaps one or two hours face-to-face on Skype?