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Saying CoffeeScript is simpler than JavaScript is the same as saying: I am going to make traffic simpler by removing lane delimiters, traffic signaling, lights, street names. You end up with a "simpler" language, but it is also less safe to use. Python will throw you an error with inconsistent indentation, but that's not the case in CoffeeScript. So any little messing with the whitespace, which is impossible to infer automatically, and you have a bug.

Then, you can massively auto-format JavaScript, use great tools that inference type information from documentation, etc... but with VomitScript, you are pretty much on your own. In fact using an advanced editor and nano will probably make no difference.

"Duh but I want to type less"... NOBODOY CARES about you typing less. If you care about typing less use templates in your editor and autocomplete.



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