Throw warning for unsupported runtimes, e.g. Node < 6 #4839
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Running
coffee
orcake
in Node 4 or below results in an unhelpful stack trace (per here):We can do better than this. This minor addition first checks that the runtime supports destructuring, and throws an informative error if your runtime doesn’t:
user@computer:~/some/path $ coffee -c code.coffee Your JavaScript runtime does not support some features used by the coffee command. Please use Node 6 or later.
Destructuring is really just a proxy for all the advanced ES2015 features that the CoffeeScript module uses, but it should be enough. We already use CI to test that CoffeeScript works in Node 6, and destructuring isn’t supported in Node 4 and below, so this should catch all the unsupported runtimes.