[annotator-dev] Switch to JavaScript?

Wed Jun 18 09:02:29 UTC 2014

I think Coffeescript is not a difficult language to learn. It was quite
easy for me to  learn it.
It improves many cumbersome aspects of js.
I think it'd be a real letdown to use js instead of coffee.
And  anyone can write pure js plugins to annotator.

Gergely

2014.06.18. 10:57 keltezéssel, Robert Casties írta:
> On 18.06.14 09:20, Kristof Csillag wrote:
>> What do you mean by "switching"?
>>  
>> 1. Deciding to accept new incoming JS code, alongside new incoming
>> Coffee code?
>> 2. Deciding that all new incoming code must be JS?
>> 3. Removing all the Coffee, and replacing it all with JS? (Either by
>> automatic compilation, or manually?)
>>
>> Anyway, I am not sure if it is much of a barrier.
>>
>> When I entered the project, making sense of the internals were
>> *significantly* more difficult to me than making sense of Coffee, which
>> was new to me at that time.
> Same with me. Learning to use Coffee was a rather small hurdle (and it
> makes writing good code easier) compared to setting up the build process
> and understanding the moving parts of the code.
>
> I think the build process does not become much simpler without coffee
> and you would have to invent your own Javascript patterns for things
> Coffee does if you wanted to convert everything to plain JS.
>
> But I don't write much code in Annotator-core so everything you prefer
> would be fine with me.
>
> Best
> 	Robert
>
>> On 2014-06-18 05:37, Randall Leeds wrote:
>>> Anyone opposed?
>>>
>>> Might lower the tooling and learning barrier.
>>>
>>> I've been a defender of it and invested some time in the tooling but
>>> I'd be okay moving away from it.
>>>
>>> No thought of timing here, re 2.0 or anything. Just taking the
>>> temperature.
>>>
>>>
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