Is Development still Happening or is this project Dead?
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It's not dead. I'm currently taking a break and I'll continue development later this year. There are many things to do, such as:
- Bugfixes
- CLI refactoring
- More documentation
- Better website (Material design!) with Spider interpreter
- React integration (JSX)
- Babel instead of Traceur
- ES6 classes
- Removing Semicolons
- Refactoring some of the syntax (Switch!)
- Gitter instead of IRC
- Syntax highlighting for GitHub
I truly believe that a more mature Spider language would be a really strong choice in the JS world, especially because projects such as React Native are getting popularity.
Nice!! Can't wait for the react integration. Spider is the only thing that's going to keep me on nodejs or iojs platform. I was planning to switch to Go because of all the headaches we had with coffeescript. Plus I like the go syntax maybe a gofmt like formatter might also do good to make code standardised.
I was planning to switch to Go because of all the headaches we had with coffeescript.
@pyros2097 Of course, this probably makes sense to you, but I have no idea what you are talking about here. What is CoffeeScript has to do with this? 😄
So I write all my backend code in coffeescript and sometimes get a lot of weird errors which is untraceable and its mostly related to some variable being undefined or overwritten or the way coffeescript transpiles to javascript, without me knowing it. So after I found out spiderscript had features like Go and also threw a lot of compiler errors if something was wrong with your code (which btw coffeescript doesn't do) I was impressed and planned on rewriting some of my projects to spiderscript. ⚓
Fair enough. You could also use plain JavaScript.
Nooooooo.........oooo!!!!!! Its been 3 months already !!
Hi @pyros2097 "Go" like syntax has inspired more than one javascript transpiler project, you may want to check https://github.com/yosbelms/cor if still feel Go-syntax passion.