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rdtsc on Oct 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dart language

I agree. Yes, I would have liked to just have coffeescript as their new language. Maybe they could have just supported direct native execution on Chrome. Maybe Firefox would have followed.

LeafStorm on Oct 10, 2011 [–]

CoffeeScript solves most of the problems with JavaScript's syntax, but the problem they're trying to solve here isn't the syntax, it's the structure and semantics.

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