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Reasoning for switching from Coffeescript to Javascript #70

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heath opened this issue Jun 19, 2013 · 1 comment

heath commented Jun 19, 2013

What was the reasoning for switching away from Coffeescript to vanilla Javascript? I noticed that https://github.com/airbnb/rendr/commit/363cf385cd9b6f1d5a5ad0b1629a71da81b0bb2b was the final move, but I didn't see any reasoning for the switch.

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spikebrehm commented Jun 19, 2013

You can see a brief explanation here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eNHE_S2zGMI#t=2018s

Basically, two reasons:

It's harder to solicit contributions from the community if the project is CoffeeScript.
CoffeeScript is harder to debug (line numbers don't match up).

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