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CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python, and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Some added features include list comprehension and destructuring assignment.

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Designed by
Jeremy Ashkenas
Developer
Same
Family
ECMAScript
Filename extensions
.coffee, .litcoffee[citation needed]
First appeared
December 13, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-12-13)
Implementation language
CoffeeScript

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CoffeeScript

Nodes49
Edges48
Triples81
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.040816
Components1

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CoffeeScript

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related to Further reading · 19
CoffeeScript → Accelerated JavaScript Development, Action, Addison-Wesley, August, Bates, Burnham, Geoffrey, Grosenbach, ISBN, Lee, Manning Publications, Mark, May, Meet CoffeeScript, Patrick, PeepCode, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Programming, Trevor
related to Adoption · 10
CoffeeScript → Atom, CoffeeScript Object Notation, CSON, Dropbox, GitHub's, JavaScript, JS, JSON, On September, TypeScript
related to Development and distribution · 10
CoffeeScript → Apache Maven, Coffee Maven Plugin, Java, JavaScript, Node, One, Rhino JavaScript, The, The CoffeeScript, Try CoffeeScript
related to history · 10
CoffeeScript → Ashkenas, By, Git, GitHub, Hacker News, Jeremy Ashkenas, On December, On February, Ruby, The
related to Syntax · 6
CoffeeScript → Almost, As, JavaScript, Many, Perl, Ruby
related to Latest additions · 5
CoffeeScript → Markdown, Markdown's, Source, The, This
related to Extensions · 3
CoffeeScript → Iced CoffeeScript, It, These
is a · 2
CoffeeScript → programming language that compiles to JavaScript, superset of CoffeeScript which adds two new keywords
Designed by · 1
CoffeeScript → Jeremy Ashkenas
Developer · 1
CoffeeScript → Same

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javascript ruby code language programming python haskell written using version also first compiler example one 1st ed 2011 isbn development

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CoffeeScriptDesigned byJeremy Ashkenas1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptDeveloperSame1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptFamilyECMAScript1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptFilename extensions.coffee, .litcoffee[citation needed]1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptFirst appearedDecember 13, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-12-13)1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptImplementation languageCoffeeScript1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptLicenseMIT1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptOSCross-platform1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptParadigmsMulti-paradigm: prototype-based, functional, imperative, scripting1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptPlatformx86-641.00infobox
CoffeeScriptScopeLexical1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptStable release2.7.0 / 24 April 2022; 4 years ago (24 April 2022)1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptTyping disciplineDynamic, implicit1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptWebsitecoffeescript.org1.00infobox
CoffeeScriptis aprogramming language that compiles to JavaScript0.90text
CoffeeScriptis asuperset of CoffeeScript which adds two new keywords0.90text

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