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		ng12 on March 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Have you created a programming language an... Same. Idiomatic Coffeescript was so much fun it gave me a borderline obsession with brevity. Array comprehensions also largely removed the need for lodash/underscore. Give me an optionally typed, ES6-flavored Coffeescript and I'll be a happy developer.

gmac on March 8, 2017 [–]

Agreed, the brevity's the thing. As I felt moved to write in 2014: http://blog.mackerron.com/2014/10/29/great-coffeescript/

And, as you say, array comprehensions largely remove the need for each/map/filter etc, which also has potential for a nice performance boost.

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