[Sugar-devel] Web activities + CoffeeScript

[Manuel Quiñones]

Hi Rogelio,

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Rogelio Mita
<rogeliomita at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> Hi all!,
>
> working with web activities urges me to use CoffeeScript.
> - Is there any decision taken on this?
> - Do you discussed this topic in some occasion? or is irrelevant?

It appeared a few times.

In January when sugar-web didn't exist:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-January/041616.html

Then in August I wrote, after doing Gears activity:

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-August/044445.html

"(GearSketch) It is written in coffeescript, and after playing for a bit, I
can see it as a possible choice for activity developers.  Its syntax
sugar makes the code look more like the gtk activities written in
python."

"One of the reasons we went for plain js for sugar-web was because of
the View Source feature.  Well, seems that since I researched a few
months ago, Source Maps has improved a lot, and I can see coffee code
in the web inspector. If the code breaks or if I add a breakpoint, for
example.  Nice!  Also, GitHub does a nice job displaying only the
coffee changes, and hidding the JS changes by default:"

So yes, it is a potable option for web activity developers.

Now, in some real projects it happened to me that I started using
Coffe or TypeScript and ended falling back to straight JS.  Think
about A. the compilation step B. no way to try things in the inspector
console C. need to translate code examples and known solutions from JS
to Coffee

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.. manuq ..