I truly do not understand why so many jumped from Coffeescript. I still use it and still believe I can be more concise and expressive in Coffeescript. Typescript and ES2015 picked up a lot of wonderful things, but I find myself writing a lot less boilerplate in Coffeescript. I will continue to "do me". I dev in Coffeescript and publish in JS. The project even made it a focus to transpile to readable/friendly JS. No biggie.
I would not publish things like this, though :)
console.log [ i if i % 3 and i % 5, 'fizz' unless i % 3, 'buzz' unless i % 5 ].join '' for i in [ 1 .. 100 ]
Separately, I bought overpriced raspberry pi's instead of cheaper alternatives because I knew the community was a strong source of support. Modern JS has a much larger community than Coffeescript 2.
I keep feeling like I'm following in the steps of giants with lpeg. I loved my introduction to it when I was big on Lua. Some of those operators take functions with such strange signatures - until you try to do something clever later, and your realize you're being passed exactly the arguments you need to make it work.
I can understand your frustration and there are valid concerns. As much as I like Las Vegas there are very real reasons not to have events like this in the US.
I think the key thing to keep in mind is that Flash gave you all of that from one vendor in a coherent, easy to make use of experience. We can certainly do the same things with JS and the technologies we have outside Flash, but it takes a lot of mental work to stitch it all together. You have to know so many frameworks. You have to know the type of frameworks you're looking for to do `x`. And then there's a lot of performance tuning because something done through canvas isn't as fast as something done with the DOM, etc. Flash was gross but useful.
On one hand, it might lead to higher wages being offered if you can't sell "free food" as a perk of employment. On the other hand, this makes me feel very libertarian and enraged that a local gov is trying to limit where I can get food. Currently I work in IT, and my employer has occasionally made food available with enough regularity that I stay onsite. I don't like having to hike back to my rental car, navigate to the venue, wait to order and pick up food, and suffer in what is usually a dirty public area while eating it. I acknowledge the insulation and welcome it. Often there isn't enough time to eat, so the whole experience is stress away from the stress of customer support. Sometimes I just don't eat if it means going outside. My work has me travelling a lot and it's difficult to r/mealprepsunday from a hotel mini fridge.
There has to be a better way to attract people with access to free food to local restaurants, and it's not this. If local venues are saying they're missing out on patrons that should be available then they should adapt to offering a corporate experience? Starbucks became much more successful when they became a spot for people with Macbooks to vegetate all day in.
You could have the company give an allowance to their employees to go out and spend it on local food, and then give the company a tax break for encouraging investment in said local venues (based on how much was spent). (maybe?)
I would not publish things like this, though :)
console.log [ i if i % 3 and i % 5, 'fizz' unless i % 3, 'buzz' unless i % 5 ].join '' for i in [ 1 .. 100 ]
Separately, I bought overpriced raspberry pi's instead of cheaper alternatives because I knew the community was a strong source of support. Modern JS has a much larger community than Coffeescript 2.