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Rails bindings for Opal

by tibastral2 on 11/4/15, 1:10 PM with 33 comments

  • by Dirlewanger on 11/4/15, 5:30 PM

    I see the benefits of Opal, but can anyone enumerate the downsides? I imagine it generates quite a bit of cruft as CoffeeScript does (of course, one argues that developer satisfaction in using said language outweighs the extra lines added to JS files).
  • by sdegutis on 11/4/15, 5:01 PM

    The people behind Opal are really awesome. I've spoken to them a few times about this project and they really do know their stuff. Opal looks very promising to anyone who's still using Ruby.
  • by jgrowl on 11/4/15, 4:42 PM

    How easy is it to call native javascript libraries with opal? Having to write wrapping code stinks.
  • by eggie5 on 11/4/15, 5:27 PM

    This is what coffee script should have been!