3: Flipping the Script
Sean and Derek take a fresh look at the tradeoffs in writing CoffeeScript and whether we should be using an ES6 transpiler instead.
November 28, 201425m 37s
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Show Notes
Sean and Derek take a fresh look at the tradeoffs in writing CoffeeScript and whether we should be using an ES6 transpiler instead.
- destructiring assignment in JavaScript
- function currying in CoffeeScript
- The existential operator in CoffeeScript
- Stockholm syndrome
- CoffeeScript writes better JavaScript than you
- ES5 Compatibility Chart: When can I use
map,reduceandforEach? - Underscore.js removes fallbacks to native ES5 array functions
- Safari's LLVM-optimized FTL JIT Compiler
- ES6 Transpilers traceur and ESNext
- ES6 Features
- A plethora of JavaScript build tools
- ES5 strict mode
- Sprockets road map for source maps support