CoffeeScript Design Decisions
A session at Full Frontal 2011
Although limited by what's possible to express in simple JavaScript, CoffeeScript tries to provide pieces of clear syntax that fit together in harmony. We'll dive into the rationale behind some of CoffeeScript's language choices to look at the trade offs involved, and both the why's and why not's.
About the speaker
Jeremy Ashkenas
Interactive News at the NYTimes / DocumentCloud • Creator of CoffeeScript + Backbone.js • Code is Literature @jashkenas
Coverage of this session
LiveblogJeremy Ashkenas: CoffeeScript [Full Frontal 2011 Live Blog] (softwareas.com)
Write-upisolani - Javascript: Full Frontal 2011: CoffeeScript Design Decisions by Jeremy Ashkenas (isolani.co.uk)
Audioff2011-01-coffeescript.mp3 (2011.full-frontal.org)
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