"I Never Want to Write Plain JavaScript Again"
"I Never Want to Write Plain JavaScript Again"
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Join For Free These are the words of legendary open-source JavaScript developer Sam Stephenson in a recent talk on CoffeeScript at FOWA 2011. The 45-minute presentation (video is here, slides are here) chronicles the evolution of higher-level approaches to JavaScript, including GWT, Pyjamas, Objective-J, and finally CoffeeScript. If you've been on the fence with CoffeeScript, this could be the one to tip you. If you're just learning CoffeeScript, it is a great, thoughtful, well-paced introduction to the language. Sam structures the rest of the talk around "10 Things I Love About CoffeeScript."
Here are Sam's top ten favorite things about CoffeeScript:
- Function Syntax
- Significant Whitespace
- Bare Objects
- Everything's an Expression
- Comprehensions
- Classes & Inheritance
- Bound Functions
- Conditionals
- Destructuring Assignment
- String Syntax
Source: http://www.coffeescriptlove.com/2012/01/i-never-want-to-write-plain-javascript.html
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