[Tutor] OT: Coffeescript and Python

[Japhy Bartlett]

I worked on a project that used cofeescript with Django.  You basically
have to know javascript to debug it properly, so it didn't really save our
team any time and we got rid of it as soon as we could.

Obviously that's just anecdotal, YMMV!


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

> This is somewhat off topic so replies offlist may be appropriate.
>
> I've just come across coffeescript(*) and started playing with it.
> It seems to share a lot with Python and as such seems like a good
> replacement for Javascript in client side web code. I'm wondering if anyone
> here has used coffeescript with any of the Python web frameworks?
> Specifically any of Turbogears, Django or Pylons?
>
> (*)For any similarly afflicted souls, coffeescript is a language that
> compiles into pure (portable) javascript so it has no dependency issues
> with webservers or browsers but is easier to read/write. At least, that's
> the theory, I'm too early into it to be sure it works as advertised, but it
> looks promising.
>
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> Alan G
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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