Maxim Zhukov crmaxx

Moving to ES6 from CoffeeScript

I fell in love with CoffeeScript a couple of years ago. Javascript has always seemed something of an interesting curiosity to me and I was happy to see the meteoric rise of Node.js, but coming from a background of Python I really preferred a cleaner syntax.

In any fast moving community it is inevitable that things will change, and so today we see a big shift toward ES6, the new version of Javascript. It incorporates a handful of the nicer features from CoffeeScript and is usable today through tools like Babel. Here are some of my thoughts and issues on moving away from CoffeeScript in favor of ES6.

While reading I suggest keeping open a tab to Babel's learning ES6 page. The examples there are great.

Punctuation

Holy punctuation, Batman! Say goodbye to your whitespace and hello to parenthesis, curly braces, and semicolons again. Even with the advanced ES6 syntax you'll find yourself writing a lot more punctuatio

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Custom recipe to get OS X 10.10 Yosemite running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. On average, I reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between distros.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your own needs.

Install Software

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Setup

Compile docker using the patch described at docker/docker#5813 dynbinary and netgo. This disables the netgo package, which doesn't support mDNS name resolution. You can use my gist michaelmaltese/docker.rb:

brew install https://gist.githubusercontent.com/michaelmaltese/1756c9ce071dea6c4edf/raw/3976a993814d46febf144754f7f3bfe22cebed2f/docker.rb

MacOS

Build 3059

MD5: 59bab8f71f8c096cd3f72cd73851515d

Rename it to: Sublime Text

Make it executable with: chmod u+x Sublime\ Text

	fixed3 Darken (fixed3 a, fixed3 b)
	{
	return min(a, b);
	}

	fixed3 Multiply (fixed3 a, fixed3 b)
	{
	return a * b;
	}

	///
	/// Simple pooling for Unity.
	/// Author: Martin "quill18" Glaude ([email protected])
	/// Latest Version: https://gist.github.com/quill18/5a7cfffae68892621267
	/// License: CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
	/// UPDATES:
	/// 2015-04-16: Changed Pool to use a Stack generic.
	///
	/// Usage:
	///

	def takeUpToNot[T](pred: (T) => Boolean): Iteratee[T, Seq[T]] = {
	def step(ok: Boolean, result: Seq[T])(i: Input[T]): Iteratee[T, Seq[T]] = i match {
	case Input.EOF \| Input.Empty => Done(result, Input.EOF)
	case Input.El(e) =>
	if (ok) Cont[T, Seq[T]](i => step(pred(e), result :+ e)(i))
	else Done(result, Input.EOF)
	}
	Cont[T, Seq[T]](i => step(ok = true, Vector())(i))
	}

	namespace :deploy do
	namespace :assets do
	Rake::Task['deploy:assets:precompile'].clear_actions

	desc "Precompile assets on local machine and upload them to the server."
	task :precompile do
	run_locally do
	execute 'RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile'
	end