Rob Conery Codes in CoffeeScript
Episode #766
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Rob Conery about CoffeeScript. Why would you use a language to generate Javascript? Rob talks about how CoffeeScript is designed to be human readable while JavaScript is much more machine-readable. Indents matter! No curly braces! Dogs and cats living together! It's chaos! But it's a happy chaos. Check it out!
Guests:
Rob Conery
Rob Conery works at Microsoft with the VS Code team, creating content for YouTube as well as contributing to open source projects. Rob is also the author of The Imposter’s Handbook, The Imposter’s Roadmap, and A Curious Moon, which is one of Richard’s favorite books because of the ending.
Links:
- Top 40 Free Ajax and Javascript Code http://speckyboy.com/2008/02/10/the-top-40-free-ajax-javascript-code-for-web-designers/
- CoffeeScript.org http://coffeescript.org/
- V8 JavaScript engine http://code.google.com/p/v8/
- Backbone.js on GitHub http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
- PeepCode https://peepcode.com/
- LightSpeed 4 ORM for .NET http://www.mindscapehq.com/products/lightspeed