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CoffeeScript Debate

This cluster centers on opinions about CoffeeScript, including its value as syntactic sugar over JavaScript, criticisms of readability and necessity, and debates on whether to use it.

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Sample Comments

rattray • Sep 23, 2014 • View on HN

In what ways does CoffeeScript not suit you perfectly?

joeblau • Oct 10, 2013 • View on HN

What is it about CoffeeScript that people don't like?

mattyod • Aug 14, 2013 • View on HN

You do realise that CoffeeScript is just a layer of sugar/arsenic on top of JavaScript?

desireco42 • Oct 10, 2011 • View on HN

Isn't this what coffeescript is, just that cs does it 100 times better

LunaSea • Jun 29, 2014 • View on HN

CoffeeScript is just an unreadable JavaScript version with additional bugs and a smaller community.

ggregoire • Aug 24, 2019 • View on HN

CoffeeScript never solved any issues tho. It was just syntactic sugar.

dreamdu5t • Dec 14, 2011 • View on HN

JavaScript looks better than CoffeeScript...

michaelwww • Apr 2, 2013 • View on HN

CoffeeScript is JavaScript with syntactic sugar so the title is accurate.

krapp • Jan 18, 2014 • View on HN

Coffeescript isn't javascript, though.

baby • Jun 25, 2015 • View on HN

CoffeeScript is actually pretty cool, from a few minutes spent with it it was just syntaxic sugar for js. Why don't you like it?