[HN Gopher] CoffeeScript for TypeScript
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CoffeeScript for TypeScript
Author : paulsb
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-02-27 22:19 UTC (41 minutes ago)
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| adamwong246 wrote:
| Finally. I miss coffeescript everyday.
| 0x62c1b43e wrote:
| If I were going to do this, I'd probably go all the way to using
| ReScript, but it's a nice idea.
|
| I'm quite surprised it's not called ToffeeScript though.
| vore wrote:
| I'm not sure if getting some extra syntactic sugar is worth
| adopting a whole other language into a codebase: at least, that
| seemed to be one of the lessons from CoffeeScript.
| Klathmon wrote:
| Eh, as long as the team is on board, and the sugar is simple
| enough and maps well to the underlying language without a ton
| of extra code, then I have no issues with it.
|
| If it ever becomes a liability, you just check in the
| "transformed" code and it's gone.
| justsomeuser wrote:
| Under "Everything is an Expression": items
| = (() => { const results = []; for
| (const item of items) { if (item.length) {
| results.push(item.toUpperCase()); } else {
| results.push("<empty>"); } }
| return results; })();
|
| Seems like they are purposely making the JS version extra long.
| It could be: items = items.map(x =>
| x.length > 0 ? x.toUpperCase() : `<empty>`)
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| 8f2ab37a-ed6c wrote:
| My kingdom for "everything is an expression" in JS/TS, but that
| would likely require an entirely new language.
| davedx wrote:
| At some point you might as well just use lisp, right? :D
| mattigames wrote:
| Given than in JS an empty string is a falsy value you can go
| even shorter: items = items.map(x =>
| x.toUpperCase() || `<empty>`)
| [deleted]
| giraffe_lady wrote:
| please just use rescript it addresses every problem with js/ts
| and is simpler and you get a sound type system please.
| 0x62c1b43e wrote:
| The compilation speed of ReScript is also great
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