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No CoffeeScript? =)


I'm working on a CoffeeScript learning environment:

http://fleetinbeing.net/beans/

Still needs a decent JSON viewer before I start on the tutorials. It's a problem that once code is evaluated, it turns into Javascript. JS2Coffee isn't a satisfactory solution. I suspect teaching some Javascript, especially stuff from Crockford's The Good Parts, will be necessary.

The advantage of course is it can be compiled and run natively in a browser. The syntax is simpler, but there are corner cases. Though plain javascript also has corner cases CoffeeScript doesn't have, and js syntax is more intimidating.


CoffeeScript is great, but it's pretty important to understand JS in order to use it.




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