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		notNow on June 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trine – A utility library for functional programmi... Do you know that the arrow function was the main reason that I made the switch from Chrome to FF Dev as my primary web browser and I never looked back? You don't know how much you're missing here. I wish that ECMAScript* considers adding support for "indented syntax" like in Sass to make it even more easier to read and go through the codebase without seeing all these ugly braces around. *: or a white knight programmer volunteering to offer this functionality for us all :)

inglor on June 11, 2015 [–]

That's CoffeeScript right there for you.

notNow on June 11, 2015 | [–]

I'm familiar with CoffeeScript but AFAIK it's a distinct language probably a dialect of JS.

I just want the indentation without all the baggage that comes along with CoffeeScript.

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