The beard slide made me laugh, but it doesn't hold any water. Ryan Dahl is clean-shaven in the node.js intro video on their website. Also, I think Javascript is great. Its 'bloated' syntax makes for minimize-able files which can end up being half the size of the originals. That's just a preference thing.
Maybe I misunderstood, but he said Coffescript's significant indentation solves Javascript's bloated syntax. I was just saying that code that uses significant indentation can't be minimized, as JS files often are.
http://bodil.github.com/coffeescript/#compress-slide
Doesn't matter either way. If you are in a production environment, using coffee-script would almost always involve a one-time compilation step to minified JS.
If you are sending real users coffee-script over the wire you are wasting a lot of their attention.
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The beard slide made me laugh, but it doesn't hold any water. Ryan Dahl is clean-shaven in the node.js intro video on their website. Also, I think Javascript is great. Its 'bloated' syntax makes for minimize-able files which can end up being half the size of the originals. That's just a preference thing.
That makes no sense. If having bloated syntax is good, why not just go all out with it?
Your reasoning makes no sense to me.Maybe I misunderstood, but he said Coffescript's significant indentation solves Javascript's bloated syntax. I was just saying that code that uses significant indentation can't be minimized, as JS files often are. http://bodil.github.com/coffeescript/#compress-slide
Doesn't matter either way. If you are in a production environment, using coffee-script would almost always involve a one-time compilation step to minified JS.
If you are sending real users coffee-script over the wire you are wasting a lot of their attention.
Is that Obj-C code?