3: Flipping the Script - a podcast by thoughtbot

Sean and Derek take a fresh look at the tradeoffs in writing CoffeeScript and whether we should be using an ES6 transpiler instead.

• destructiring assignment in JavaScript


• function currying in CoffeeScript


• The existential operator in CoffeeScript


• Stockholm syndrome


• CoffeeScript writes better JavaScript than you


• ES5 Compatibility Chart: When can I use map, reduce and forEach?


• Underscore.js removes fallbacks to native ES5 array functions


• Safari's LLVM-optimized FTL JIT Compiler


• ES6 Transpilers traceur and ESNext


• ES6 Features


• A plethora of JavaScript build tools


• ES5 strict mode


• Sprockets road map for source maps support

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