A little language that compiles to JavaScript. Feed by Trevor Burnham, author of pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee2/…

Replying to @ryabenko_pro
@ryabenko_pro Ah, I see. Yes, the syntax for that is a little less tidy: for i in [2...10] by 1 x = list[i] ...
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CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development, Second Edition is now available from PragProg. pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee2/…
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My original video answer to "Why @meteorjs?" Real-time, live-playable chess in about 35 lines of @CoffeeScript. bit.ly/meteor-chess-talk
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Replying to @manan19
@manan19 Yep. As a rule of thumb, implicit parens extend to the end of the statement.
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Replying to @MadJavaScript
@MadJavaScript No official roadmap. You can see discussion of ES6 features at github.com/jashkenas/coffees… and other tickets.
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This. framerjs.com/ Is the reason I will finally embrace @CoffeeScript
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Replying to @cohese_llc
@cohese_llc Because : and ? both mean other things in CoffeeScript, and because you can write ternaries as "if x then y else z".
Replying to @ingshtrom
@ingshtrom Declaring "myVar = undefined" in the outer scope doesn't suffice for you?
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Replying to @262747531
@262747531 It's available at pragprog.com/titles/tbcoffee…, though unfortunately it's dated and won't work under the latest Node.js.
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First impression of Swift: JS done right. Not as great as @CoffeeScript.
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Pretty cool that @AtomEditor is entirely written in @CoffeeScript too. Big project. github.com/atom/atom
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@coffeescript #tip of the day: "[..., tail] = list" #nodejs #javascript
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_McC Yep: "for own key of object" does the obj.hasOwnProperty(key) check.
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