michaelficarra

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by michaelficarra 14y ago
Everything Jeremy said. And my compiler isn't far away from being polished enough for me to consider it ready to be labelled 2.0. Check out the 2.0 roadmap: https://github.com/michaelficarra/CoffeeScriptRedux/wiki/Roa... 95% of the langua
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
I would not recommend you use it in production just yet, but from my reading of that wiki page, there are only 3 or 4 fairly uncommon features that are unsupported. Most of them could still use more tests, though, and that's why they are mi
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
I hadn't seen that blog post. Thanks for that.
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
The names I suggested were "CoffeeScript: Reloaded", "CoffeeScript Episode II: Attack of the Clones", "The CoffeeScript Supremacy", and "Live Free or CoffeeScript Hard". Technically, right now it's "CoffeeScript II: The Wrath of Khan". Jere
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
That would just be a default in my fork. Since the output will be massively configurable, you can use any style you can imagine, including a single line with all the braces and semicolons and whitespace you want. See http://oai.cwi.nl/oa
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
Fear not. The re-implementation will be completely backwards compatible. It just a smoother compilation pipeline, and adds some output configurability. But regardless, Jeremy and I have decided it would be best to change the name.
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
I just want to make sure people know that those changes are bound for a fork once I reach full compliance with the current compiler. The project's one and only goal is to implement the language exactly as Jeremy's compiler does, but be pr
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
My guess is the latter.
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
Thank you, you are exactly right. Working on CoffeeScript is my passion. I don't need any financial incentive to do it, I just need food, a place to live, and some cash to hold off my student loan creditors.
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by michaelficarra 14y ago
Kickstarter allows me to add rewards after the project has started. What kind of rewards would you like to see?