Leave Coffee Alone!

Slides from Meet.js Warszawa talk on Jan 29th, 2015

Links from last two slides:
http://oscargodson.com/posts/why-i-dont-use-coffeescript.html
http://blog.ponyfoo.com/2013/09/28/we-dont-want-your-coffee
http://procbits.com/2012/05/18/why-do-all-the-great-node-js-developers-hate-coffeescript

http://blog.codinghorror.com/size-is-the-enemy/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not\_invented\_here
https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features/blob/master/README.md
http://arcturo.github.io/library/coffeescript/04_idioms.html
http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinions.html

Transcript

1. LEAVE COFFEE ALONE! Jan 29th, 2015 Meet.js Warszawa
2. WOJTEK SIUDZINSKI @suda
3. WHAT IS "wrong" WITH COFFEESCRIPT?
4. "It’s just a syntax sugar"
5. SIZE IS THE ENEMY
6. var result = array.map(function(item, i){ return item.name; }); VS result = (item.name for item in array)
7. "All its features will be in ECMA 6"
8. ABSTRACT ME, BITCH!
9. "Wart Removal"
10. HOW IS THIS A BAD THING?
11. 0 == " \t\r\n "
12. "I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function" — Douglas Crockford
13. EXTEND()
14. "It's hard to debug CoffeeScript"
15. $ coffee --compile --map foo.coffee OR $ coffee --nodejs --debug- brk foo.coffee
17. "You should learn JavaScript before CoffeeScript"
18. !
19. "Experienced JS coders don't use it"
20. NOT INVENTED HERE SYNDROME
21. "I write JS code longer than you"
22. "I take my poo longer than you. Is this make it better?" — Michał Siek
23. Strong Opinions, Weakly Held — Bob Sutton
24. QUESTIONS?
26. ▸ http://oscargodson.com/posts/why-i-dont-use-coffeescript.html ▸ http://blog.ponyfoo.com/2013/09/28/we-dont-want-your-coffee ▸ http://procbits.com/2012/05/18/why-do-all-the-great-node-js- developers-hate-coffeescript
27. ▸ http://blog.codinghorror.com/size-is-the-enemy/ ▸ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here ▸ https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features/blob/master/ README.md ▸ http://arcturo.github.io/library/coffeescript/04_idioms.html ▸ http://bobsutton.typepad.com/myweblog/2006/07/ strongopinions.html