Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I like pure JS over CoffeeScript (and other something-to-JS solutions) because:

- Writing JS gives me a better feel for how the language actually works

- I like the line number in the JS I'm debugging to equal the line in my source code

- There's less magic to understand & deal with

- CoffeeScript automatically returns the last line of a function, and I don't always like that




> - Writing JS gives me a better feel for how the language actually works

Only because you know it better...

> - I like the line number in the JS I'm debugging to equal the line in my source code

Source maps.

> - There's less magic to understand & deal with

https://medium.com/@c2c/nodejs-a-quick-optimization-advice-7...

> - CoffeeScript automatically returns the last line of a function, and I don't always like that

Use explicit return then.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: