CoffeeScript

A language that compiles into JavaScript. You can use any existing JavaScript library seamlessly from CoffeeScript (and vice-versa). The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, will work in every JavaScript runtime, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten JavaScript.

First released2009
Developed byJeremy Ashkenas
Latest stable version2
Open-sourceNot defined

Interesting facts

The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: “It’s just JavaScript.”

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