CoffeeScript, a simple languages that compiles to JavaScript and aims to make web developers’ lives easier, has just moved to a second major release, one that emphasizes syntax improvements.

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When discussing CoffeeScript, you need to keep in mind that it is not a replacement for JavaScript. CoffeeScript is a "JavaScript generator." Your browser doesn't ...

For many years, JavaScript had a bad reputation among developers. Sure, we would use it when we needed to do something dynamic in the browser, but we also would avoid it as much as possible. As I (and ...

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CoffeeScript is a language that compiles down into JavaScript. “But why? JavaScript is so simple?” Bullcorn. If you don’t use JavaScript everyday the language is wonky and frustrating. When you need ...

CoffeeScript, billed by its creator as “unfancy JavaScript,” is in development as a language that compiles into JavaScript but offers a different sense of style. Still in an alpha stage of development ...

The engineering team at Dropbox re-wrote its browser-side codebase one week last July, according to a post on the Dropbox tech blog. The rewrite was done to translate all of its JavaScript into a ...

When discussing CoffeeScript, you need to keep in mind that it is not a replacement for JavaScript. CoffeeScript is a "JavaScript generator." Your browser doesn't ...