[annotator-dev] Switch to JavaScript?

Wed Jun 18 11:56:45 UTC 2014

Removing CoffeeScript entirely would be appealing to me as a potential 
contributor. While I agree it is not a difficult language to learn, the 
reality of it is that my billable time using Annotator won't support 
non-billable time learning CoffeeScript to contribute to the core. I 
know my way around CoffeeScript a bit, but not enough to contribute and 
write tests efficiently, so it is a barrier for me.

That being said, I can see the advantages of CoffeeScript already described.

Steph

On 6/18/2014 5:02 AM, Gergely, Ujvari wrote:
> 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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