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0 pointsdstein14y ago0 comments

Shouldn't it be named batman.coffee?

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Haha! Yes! Good call.

The first version of Batman was written in plain Javascript, but Shopify has really been falling in love with CoffeeScript, so we decided to rewrite it before it was released.

Batman.coffee is more correct but sure doesn’t have the same ring to it…

pandeiro14y ago

Same problem as Spine."js", playing hide the salami. Most JS devs still think JS means ECMAScript. Call it what it is. Python packages compile to C but they don't call themselves names like "Django.C", that would be disingenuous and obnoxious

thesnider14y ago

In fact, Python packages do not compile to C, so calling Django Django.C would expose a complete lack of understanding of Python. In fact, batman.js is closer to a Jinja template being named with a .html extension.

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