Disclosure: I have never used CoffeeScript. However, based on the article, the death-knell against CoffeeScript for me was the variable scoping rules.
With no variable declaration keyword (a la var, my, local, private), adding a variable assignment anywhere could radically change the variable scoping.
I'm done, this isn't suitable for prime-time, time to go somewhere else.
I spent too many years in the 80s working with xBase. I've been shafted too many times by calling a (coworker's) routine that forgot to declare its variables "private", which stomped over one of my variables. (private in xBase is similar to local in Perl 4) To have a language which doesn't let you declare the intended scope of a variable - ugh.
With no variable declaration keyword (a la var, my, local, private), adding a variable assignment anywhere could radically change the variable scoping.
I'm done, this isn't suitable for prime-time, time to go somewhere else.
I spent too many years in the 80s working with xBase. I've been shafted too many times by calling a (coworker's) routine that forgot to declare its variables "private", which stomped over one of my variables. (private in xBase is similar to local in Perl 4) To have a language which doesn't let you declare the intended scope of a variable - ugh.