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Sam, creator of Prototype.js: "I hope to never have to write JavaScript again."

• mrkurt 15y ago
  He could have build Prototype.js in CoffeeScript. :)
  • riffraff 15y ago
    unless you meam "rewrite", I guess his time machine was non functional.
    • mrkurt 15y ago
      Well he would have had to write CoffeeScript instead of waiting for jashkenas to build it. He should have, I'm disappointed.
• TrevorBurnham 15y ago
  I've heard this from many people who've picked up CoffeeScript, especially those who are most fluent in Ruby. Dr. Nic of Engine Yard, an early proponent of CoffeeScript, gave me this blurb for my book: > JavaScript the runtime language is fast, dynamic, and can run in places other languages can't. But JavaScript the development language is kind of icky. That's why CoffeeScript may turn out to be one of the great innovations in web application development; since I first discovered it, I've never had to write a line of pure JavaScript.