It Requires Super Human Discipline to Write Readable Code in Callbacks (opens in new tab)

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11 pointsntrepid812y ago4 comments

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ilaksh12y ago· 3 in thread

If Guido could carefully and objectively study ToffeeScript then he would see that it is much more readable than Python/Tornado.

p0b12y ago

So you're comparing a dialect that was written for CoffeScript which was written for the purpose of improving JavaScript's brevity and readability and was partially inspired by Python and took elements from Python to something that's supported natively in Python?

I suppose anything is possible with a meta-meta-meta language.

ntrepid8OP12y ago

One of the things I'm most excited about in Python is the new asyncio that Guido was talking about. I hoping that with an IOLoop in the standard library and built in Futures, that many of the synchronous network libraries available today will be able to present a synchronous mode and an asynchronous mode. The big strength of NodeJS is the async ecosystem, but Python could catch up quickly if asyncio really takes off.

ilaksh12y ago

Yes, and I am aware it was inspired by Python, that's obvious, and that's one of the biggest reasons I like CoffeeScript because of the nice somewhat Python-ish clean syntax. To me though CoffeeScript is even cleaner than Python. For example, you don't need colons in some places, and there are less underscores in some places. And with ToffeeScript smoothing out the async stuff, I think its really worth trying out for Python people.

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