Geoffrey Booth

Hi @kitsonk, congratulations on shipping Deno 1.0! Any update on support for external compilers?

So something that's been discussed over the years (particularly by @lydell if I remember correctly) has been potentially refactoring out the need for jison. Basically look at `grammar.coffee` and the...

> How hard will be to accomplish this decoupling? The naïve approach would be to just port `parser.js` into CoffeeScript, and replace `grammar.coffee` with that; then update `Cakefile` to include...

Wow, what an active thread. Can we maybe narrow the focus a bit? The desire for YAML or YAML-like syntax, per the OP, is to have some more natural way...

Hi @johndeighan. I’m largely responsible for `"type": "module"` existing in Node.js. We created it primarily to handle the use case of `.coffee` and `.ts` files that need some way other...

Duplicate of https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/5018.

There was some side discussion of this in https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/4847#issuecomment-356124744, but this issue could perhaps serve as a better canonical place to track it. Here’s how I remember the consensus so...

@aminland See the quote from above: > There should only be one way to declare variables in CoffeeScript. Not having to think about two different mental models of variable scope...

For the record, if block scoping were to be added to CoffeeScript _in addition_ to the function scoping we already have, it would be via a new operator like `:=`,...

You are correct, `let` is reserved. Regardless, in the prior threads there was a consensus that if we were going to support both types of scoping, it would be via...