Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework

by jclevy • 13 years ago

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olalonde• 13 years ago

I really wish Coffeescript frameworks would stop calling themselves Javascript. Why not Chocolate.coffee instead?

jclevy9• 13 years ago

You are right. However Javascript is apparent and supported in the Ide and as I use Coffeescript an Javascript as a pair of programming languages, I called it Chocolate.js

btipling6• 13 years ago

I would probably dislike CoffeeScript a lot less if I didn't keep running into CoffeeScript examples on *.js libraries. CoffeeScript has made things worse for JavaScript developers, not better, because it's everywhere now and I have even seen libraries written in JavaScript provide only CoffeeScript examples!

Why can't they just be separate languages? Stop mixing them up. You don't see Dart and JavaScript getting mixed up.

goldfeld• 13 years ago

In this case it would have sounded way cool. But I would append js to any library developed in CoffeeScript simply because it's the target of compilation, and usable by any and all JavaScript developers. This isn't a library, but if it were it would have to consider that it would see far more people using it in their JS applications than in CoffeeScript ones, because it doesn't really matter. And calling it "js" doesn't alienate CoffeeScript devs, since they're fully aware of the interop, while calling it .coffee might keep away many js devs who don't know what CoffeeScript is about or who don't really know the JS ecosystem too well (which is all too common in JavaScript, being the necessity it is.)

FR6• 13 years ago

Seem's interesting, I would like to see more screenshots of the IDE without having to install it.

elisee• 13 years ago

Yup, a short screencast or some screenshots would be great. Seeing as Windows isn't a supported platform (yet?), I can't try it out right now without rebooting and I could use some more convincing...

jclevy9• 13 years ago

I'll try to prepare a screecast in the following weeks. There is now a demo there: https://demo.chocolatejs.org/

jclevy9• 13 years ago

It could probably be supported on Windows, but I'll need some help...

niggler2• 13 years ago

Is there a live demo or a screencast or more screenshots?

jclevy9• 13 years ago

There is now a non writable demo there : https://demo.chocolatejs.org/

rizky05• 13 years ago

it's literally chocolate

zoop• 13 years ago

This produces an untrusted site warning in Chrome

btipling6• 13 years ago

I'm going to just always flag CoffeeScript libraries that get posted with a .js extention. It is too much effort to put into looking at something only to find out it's not what you thought it was. I don't look at Clojure or Rails posts because I am not interested in them, but somehow I just can't avoid CoffeeScript. So I'm flagging.

jclevy9• 13 years ago

I understand. I'm sorry for that.

jashkenas2• 13 years ago

Gee, that's a bit intolerant, isn't it? Do you similarly flag all Clojure and Rails posts on HN, because you're just not interested?

btipling6• 13 years ago

No, because they don't pretend to be something I'm interested in.

calgaryeng• 13 years ago

You have first world problems my friend.

irickt• 13 years ago

Really? It's not about the language. It's about the runtime.

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