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wwweston on Dec 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning

Of course they do; it's the same semantics under the hood. CS is mostly different tokens plus some sugary shortcuts.

That doesn't mean that it's not OK to prefer it over JavaScript (or vice versa) if you find those differences make you happier about coding in it.

FranklinChen on Dec 19, 2011 [–]

Exactly what I was saying in my blog post: that it's all OK, and everyone should just get along already.

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