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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.

The thing that absolutely pisses me off is how I try to be actively aware of what settings I disagree with and disable things I don't like - and then an unseen update resets things to default.

HOW MANY TIMES MUST I UNCHECK WHAT TO SYNC TO MY ACCOUNT? YOU WOULD THINK THAT IS SAVED PERSISTENTLY.

I think my qualify of life on Firefox would be improved greatly if a notice popped up saying some of my settings were reset to defaults because of breaking changes (or minor). Like they give a crap.

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.

Would the Windows-equivalent of fork() be CreateProcess() ?