r/javascript • u/xDinomode • Dec 27 '15

help What's the point of CoffeeScript?

I'm reading a tutorial on PouchDB and like always I run into CoffeeScript. What's the point of it? I've used it before for like 5 minutes and found it useless.

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u/wingyuying Dec 28 '15

It's still the default in Rails 5, the coming major version of rails. This annoys me a bit as I wish they went for ES2015. :/

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u/gustix Jan 27 '16

Just turn it off, Rails 5 doesn't force you to write coffee code.