25 engineers on Hacker News describe using CoffeeScript first-hand: 14 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I'd had a hell of a time converting a bunch of Coffeescript back into JS. When that project was done I thought 'never again will I use a language that tries to fix JS.'”
regret · production · danielvaughn · 2023-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was at Groupon when we switched to 100% CoffeeScript... there were multiple implementations of the spec... which lead to weird bugs.”
regret · production · alasdair_ · 2020-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the coffeescript codebase was a disaster and needed some rework”
regret · production · Eridrus · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The main reasons I reach for Coffeescript for my personal projects are: built-in support for comprehensions”
endorse · personal · tdumitrescu · 2014-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're starting to move away from it to simplify our build process.”
regret · production · jb55 · 2014-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using CoffeeScript for a bit over a year now and never looked back.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · sehrope · 2013-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all control structures such as functions, classes, conditionals, loops are just already in language you know - coffeescript”
endorse · production · treeform · 2012-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using CoffeeScript to post-process MD simulation results because it's such an easy language to get things done in.”
endorse · personal · Xcelerate · 2012-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“CoffeeScript makes our lives easier, almost eliminates bad practices and removes brace clutter from the screen, making the code more readable”
endorse · production · tadruj · 2012-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really love CoffeeScript... I've been using CoffeeScript to postprocess data from molecular simulations”
endorse · personal · Xcelerate · 2012-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Coffee Script is a DSL for writing damn good websites. ... Coffee Script is a great language.”
endorse · production · radagaisus · 2011-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the syntax is much more readable - that was enough to sell me.”
endorse · personal · danmaz74 · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Exactly why we moved to CoffeeScript, without it you need to rigorously enforce coding conventions.”
endorse · production · nt_mark · 2011-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think CoffeeScript is a wonderful replacement for JavaScript, it made client side code so much nicer to write for me. Been using it since 0.7 (?).”
endorse · personal · SupremumLimit · 2010-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using CoffeeScript extensively for an upcoming project, and having written 1000+ lines of it so far, I'm loving it!”
endorse · personal · tectonic · 2010-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using CoffeeScript together with underscore.js, backbone.js and of course jQuery.”
endorse · personal · eddieplan9 · 2010-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the last week I've been using CoffeeScript along with Backbone.js & Underscore.js (all backed by jashkenas) and it's given me a much greater appreciation”
endorse · personal · dmix · 2010-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We gained performance, we are much happier with our gui code now.”
endorse · production · DanielRibeiro · 2010-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The industry has deemed those languages completely unnecessary when we migrated away from coffeescript.”
neutral · production · marcofiset · 2024-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one had CoffeeScript but then we migrated to JavaScript when I was leaving”
neutral · production · bradlys · 2021-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“And we used sprockets, CoffeeScript and SASS.”
neutral · production · 4 yr · demiazz · 2017-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I debugged more than enough CoffeeScript back when source maps weren't universally supported”
neutral · production · klibertp · 2017-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've never written views in Erlang (actually, I've opted for higher abstraction and used Coffeescript)”
neutral · production · emptyflask · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I ran it with coffee script, it actually uses this JavaScript... My coffeescript version is here”
neutral · personal · IsaacSchlueter · 2012-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run the compiler as a Maven plugin, but it's distributed as JavaScript and all you need is an interpreter.”
neutral · production · curun1r · 2012-02-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?