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pooriaazimi on Sept 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript

Scala is vastly different than Java.

CoffeeScript is just "clean" JavaScript. You can (and I have done) convert a 200 LOC JS code to CS in less than 15-20 minutes and think carefully about every change you make.

Java -> Scala is like re-architecturing your project. JS -> CS is more like re-factoring.

adgar on Sept 14, 2012 [–]

200 LOC is miniscule. Like, not worth discussing. 200k? Now we're talking about a medium-to-large project.

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