> Jeremy Ashkenas (author of coffeescript) helped bring es6 up to par.
By spending basically the entire runup to it poo-pooing it?
> You can see the influence of coffeescript all over es6 in the class syntax, string interpolation and destructuring.
Yeah it couldn't be the dozens of languages which have been doing that since the 80s and which browser developers were already mining for extensions no sir, Coffeescript invented having a class keyword (which is why it was already a reserved keyword in JS), invented string interpolation which it lifted directly from Ruby (according to its own doc) and from which JS string templates diverge both syntactically and semantically, and invented destructuring (and will I'm sure soon invent pattern matching).
By spending basically the entire runup to it poo-pooing it?
> You can see the influence of coffeescript all over es6 in the class syntax, string interpolation and destructuring.
Yeah it couldn't be the dozens of languages which have been doing that since the 80s and which browser developers were already mining for extensions no sir, Coffeescript invented having a class keyword (which is why it was already a reserved keyword in JS), invented string interpolation which it lifted directly from Ruby (according to its own doc) and from which JS string templates diverge both syntactically and semantically, and invented destructuring (and will I'm sure soon invent pattern matching).