This and the recent release of 1.1.0 gave me a push and I spent some time converting a small library I maintain (http://flickrshow.com) to CoffeesScript as an exercise and and education into the syntax and potential benefits.
As it was a 1-1 conversion it was fun to see not only how much syntactical cruft the CS syntax removes but also how a few sloppy lines got tidied up, (mainly existence checks). In that sense, it adds value. It'll be interesting to follow this up with how easy it is to churn out new code ...
As it was a 1-1 conversion it was fun to see not only how much syntactical cruft the CS syntax removes but also how a few sloppy lines got tidied up, (mainly existence checks). In that sense, it adds value. It'll be interesting to follow this up with how easy it is to churn out new code ...