The Bike Shed

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