All of the languages we have on the list have an extensive history to them. Not CoffeeScript. It is only about 10 years old, but already there was no use for it. It was designed to address a flaw in Java, but as time when on Java updated its own framework making CoffeeScript obsolete.
ITProPortal: Programming languages to avoid. https://www.itproportal.com/features/programming-languages-to-avoid/
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As much as I don't favor that particular language, it's still 'Visual Basic', not 'Visual basic'.
Secondly, while CoffeeScript does iron out a few JavaScript gotchas, it's in fact a bit more, for example:
f = ( x ) -> ...; this was copied into ECMA Script);CoffeeScript is not an engineering language. It is a teaching language. We write proof of concept code in coffee script and have the engineers in the world adapt this terse and logical syntax into the robust and bulletproof implementations you need for El Bosso.
Well, there's no real reason to use it though. ES already went way beyond and the biggest mistake by the portal is that they're still conflating Java with JS and is clearly not written by anyone who knows a thing about programming.
Coffee is way more readable and its actually just javascript... not java. Poor article indeed
yakri 2 points · Oct 2019
My big complaint about coffeescript over pure js is really the opposite. It's highly confusing and unreadable.
Which is what you'd expect as more explicit and verbose languages tend to be the most readable.
bytewav 2 points · Oct 2019
I guess you would like Ts then.