On: Elixir Design Goals

[awj]

Pretty sure he meant CoffeeScript. It doesn't remove mutability, but it does do away with default-global variables.

[masklinn → awj]

So does javascript unless you forget `var` and you refuse to `"use strict"` and lint.

[steveklabnik → masklinn]

That's not really 'by default' then, eh?

[masklinn → steveklabnik]

True, it's not the language's default, just the default your environment should have (and the default of any sane IDE).

Which is less work than adding coffeescript to your toolchain.

[kaonashi → steveklabnik]

The 'default' (and I'm not sure how now declaring your variables with var qualifies) depends entirely on what's bound to 'this'.