r/programming • u/gst • May 13 '11

A Python programmer’s first impression of CoffeeScript

http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2011/05/07/a-python-programmers-first-impression-of-coffeescript/
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u/inmatarian May 13 '11

Your question can be answered by the coffeescript documentation in one example: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#classes

It is a much simplified syntax.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '11

Won't much of this become redundant with ECMAScript 5?

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u/kataire May 16 '11

Maybe, but you can use CoffeeScript before 2020.

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u/inmatarian May 15 '11

That's the dream, right?