The Bike Shed

Sean and Derek take a fresh look at the tradeoffs in writing CoffeeScript and whether we should be using an ES6 transpiler instead.

• destructiring assignment in JavaScript
• function currying in CoffeeScript
• The existential operator in CoffeeScript
• Stockholm syndrome
• CoffeeScript writes better JavaScript than you
• ES5 Compatibility Chart: When can I use map, reduce and forEach?
• Underscore.js removes fallbacks to native ES5 array functions
• Safari's LLVM-optimized FTL JIT Compiler
• ES6 Transpilers traceur and ESNext
• ES6 Features
• A plethora of JavaScript build tools
• ES5 strict mode
• Sprockets road map for source maps support

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