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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.

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 ...

CoffeeScript, which attempts to make it easier to program in JavaScript, has a newly released beta version that features ECMAScript 2015+ support. The currently downloadable 2.0 beta offers ES2015+ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...