jashkenas/coffeescript on Hacker News

…I feel like almost the last man standing at this point. I have some plans to revive a fork of https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript but those are ... plans. I like CS for its syntax which is indentation-based similar to Python; in…

comment by DemocracyFTW2 · 2025-11-10 · in Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?

…to JavaScript compiler too: https://docs.racket-lang.org/racketscript/index.html Ooo, there's more: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...

comment by shawn_w · 2024-05-17 · in A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations

…Coffeescript? I mean it runs Typescript natively, so why not my favorite flavor of javascript, too? https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/5150

comment by danschumann · 2022-08-15 · in Big changes ahead for Deno

…a bit annoying, ironically. [1] https://github.com/edemaine/coffeescript/blob/typescript/tes... [2] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/5307

comment by phil294 · 2022-07-29 · in HypeScript: Simplified TypeScript type system in TypeScript's own type system

…IDEs because Visual Studio licenses." There's lots of choices here for compile to JS languages: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...

comment by esprehn · 2022-03-27 · in Kotlin for JavaScript

…ship with their own type system like Dart will probably be indifferent to the debated proposal. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/5307 [2] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/5394

comment by phil294 · 2022-03-10 · in First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript

I always found literate coffeescript to be pretty neat. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/blob/master/src/sc...

comment by rapind · 2022-01-09 · in Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)

(being discussed here https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/5307 )

comment by phil294 · 2021-08-18 · in Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

…the platform - the web - was brilliant. Many have written 'better' languages that compile to js - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... and while typescript is one of the better, more supported ones, isn't it just…

comment by DrScientist · 2020-12-07 · in A Modern JavaScript Tutorial

…You should write in any other language than JavaScript, there are hundreds to choose from. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...

comment by nickbauman · 2020-06-09 · in Design Doc: Use JavaScript instead of TypeScript for internal Deno Code

…of years ago than it is now. Nowadays the cool kids complain about npm or rollup or something. [0] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/commits/master [1] https://mithril.js.org/signatures.html#splats

comment by jessaustin · 2020-05-16 · in The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017

…the iPhone and iPad. Exhibit A: List of very different and diverse languages that compile to JS ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... . ). If this does not demonstrate the flexibility and malleability of the…

comment by scarface74 · 2020-04-09 · in How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes

…and flexible tech! Exhibit A: List of very different and diverse languages that compile to JS ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... ). If this does not demonstrate the flexibility and malleability of the…

comment by orange8 · 2020-04-09 · in How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes

Does Not look dead to me. last activity is within the last 30 days or so. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/ Its not as popular to be certain, though.

comment by no_wizard · 2020-02-21 · in Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned

You could already compile programs from other languages to javascript. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... Wasm was effectively an extension of asm.js. It makes the experience of compile-to-web better, but it…

comment by MikeHolman · 2019-12-06 · in W3C recommends WebAssembly

A more complete list of languages compiled to JS can be found here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...

comment by sesm · 2019-11-26 · in Scala.js 1.0.0-RC1

Why do you say "But coffeescript is seeing a bit of a revival"? Many metrics (such as https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor... ) suggest otherwise... I've written an enormous amount of code in CoffeeScript since…

comment by williamstein · 2019-10-13 · in How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript

…and functional, which is what makes it possible to be the worlds most compiled to languange ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... ). Elm comes nowhere close to beating the JS cost benefit analysis. In the end,…

comment by orange8 · 2019-07-02 · in The Cost of JavaScript in 2019

…chaining, present at least as early as v1.0 in 2010[0], would have counted as prior art. [0]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/blob/1.0.0/lib/par...

comment by mrmr1993 · 2019-01-27 · in Future JavaScript: what is still missing?

…like Elm/PureScript/BuckleScript/ScalaJs/Nim/ClojureScript(with core.specs) and so on[1]. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...

comment by ghosthamlet · 2018-10-27 · in Fear, trust and JavaScript: When types and functional programming fail

…there is a lot missing from this graph. There's a ton of info for conversion to javascript here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

comment by kevin42 · 2018-07-06 · in A graph of programming languages connected through compilers

…and get over it, that's not possible with js. Maybe 5 years ago. For nowadays, I beg to differ: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu... A significant amount of the choices there produce generally better-performing…

comment by egeozcan · 2018-05-16 · in JavaScript is Good, Actually

What's your favored language? Because odds are good that it can compile to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

comment by electric_sheep · 2018-04-13 · in Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better

…seem so many that no matter your taste in syntactical sugar there should be something for you. [0] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

comment by codefined · 2017-11-23 · in From Markdown to remote code execution in Atom

…and tooling, thanks to sourcemaps. See coffeescript and lightscript for two ecosystems to emulate. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/blob/master/src/so... http://www.lightscript.org/

comment by sillysaurus3 · 2017-11-15 · in What is a Source Map

…on the "Contributors" graph a major increase in CoffeeScript contributions in the past year or so: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor... A bunch of people helped out: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/…

comment by rattray · 2017-09-18 · in Announcing CoffeeScript 2

…2.0 to upgrade it from a language designed around ES3, to make it as ES6+ friendly as possible. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/commits/master He also redid the website and the docs for good measure: http://coffeescript.org/…

comment by jashkenas · 2017-09-18 · in Announcing CoffeeScript 2

Uh... does this list of "languages that compile to Javascript" count? :) https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu... More specifically, Emscripten seems to be exactly what you're describing:…

comment by acemarke · 2017-08-09 · in Ask HN: Can JavaScript be treated like machine language?

Actually if you still really want JSX in CoffeeScript, it's now built in: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pull/4551

comment by mambodog · 2017-07-18 · in Decaffeinating a Large CoffeeScript Codebase Without Losing Sleep

…Scala. LivesSript. ES6. CoffeeScript. Flow. PureScript. ... There must be what, 50 odd listed on https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... ...but I mean, even if we accept that the things you say about clojurescript…

comment by shadowmint · 2017-05-26 · in Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?

I know it's a parody but: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

comment by frozenport · 2017-04-11 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

…languages which compile to JavaScript if you want a different style or expressiveness in your code. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... How good the tooling is (maturity, source maps etc) for other transpiled…

comment by campers · 2017-03-12 · in Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from JavaScript?

…are a bunch of Scheme implementations in JS, none of them are benchmarked in the previous link: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... JavaScript is a really shitty language to target because it has very few…

comment by sedachv · 2017-03-05 · in Nash – A tracing JIT compiler for Scheme [pdf]

…enough for now. CoffeeScript is not totally dead. There's pretty regular activity this month (see https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/commits/master ). That said, personally, I find the stability of CoffeeScript to be kind of nice,…

comment by williamstein · 2017-02-23 · in Converting a large React Codebase from Coffeescript to ES6

…plainly wrong. The list of praticals client-side language on the web is actually pretty vast: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu... . Of course you can't write a piece of, say, typescript, and just include it in…

comment by bpizzi · 2017-01-17 · in Nylas Mail is now free

^F JVM on this page: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

comment by JCoder58 · 2016-12-06 · in Closure Compiler in JavaScript

…and Flow are more popular than "not terrible" languages like ClojureScript, Elm, etc. 1. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

comment by tlrobinson · 2016-11-24 · in Electron considered harmful

…[2] - http://www.corewars.org/ [3] - https://screeps.com/ [4] - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

comment by pmoriarty · 2016-10-08 · in TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System

…down to Javascript, CSS, and HTML. There are thousands of languages that compile down to JS. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... There are several languages that compile to CSS, like COMPASS and SASS. There are…

comment by mncolinlee · 2016-09-14 · in Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

…be compiled to JS. Including COBOL ... https://github.com/ajlopez/CobolScript It's a long list: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu... Also, ultimately, there will be code that you can't maintain because you don't…

comment by onion2k · 2016-07-14 · in WebAssembly Specification Prototype

Maybe the language is just stabilized and works very well already, but it's still active: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pulse (last commit is 6 days ago). It doesn't say anywhere that it's in "maintenance" mode. But it's true…

comment by dorianm · 2016-06-07 · in Show HN: New calendar app idea

…- Upcoming features, like ES7 async/await have polyfills that you can use today (as opposed to CS - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pull/3813 ) Though I do miss a couple of things: - The last expression in a block is implicitly…

comment by bcherny · 2016-06-07 · in Show HN: New calendar app idea

…for ~9 months. Probably something to do with the ad hoc compiler and lack of ES6 support. See https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor...

comment by bcherny · 2016-06-07 · in Show HN: New calendar app idea

…For instance consider Haskell, Ruby, Lisp, and Nim. List of languages that compile to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu... Javascript has become the "C of the Web", like C has become the default "high level…

comment by progman · 2016-05-27 · in Compile to JavaScript: The 4 best alternatives to JavaScript

…"+1"s faster than GitHub Explore can ignore them. [1] https://github.com/angular/angular.js [2] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript

comment by rev_bird · 2016-04-16 · in Git-random: Chrome extension replaces new tab with random GitHub user's profile

There are hundreds of compile-to-JavaScript languages: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...

comment by actsasbuffoon · 2016-03-22 · in JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language

…no reason to pay any attention to dart at all, even though I like everything else about dart: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...

comment by edtechdev · 2016-01-09 · in Why I'm joining the Dart Team

The amount of "compile to JavaScript" tools is impressive https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

comment by tdurden · 2015-12-03 · in Compile OCaml to JavaScript, Run on Node

…From the post, there's this very illuminating link that I'm sure most here have already seen: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu... That's a pretty long list. :-)

comment by TimJYoung · 2015-11-10 · in Web Assembly

…the monkey dance"[3] -- a.k.a. "large complex apps". [1] https://www.reddit.com/comments/1j1cw7 [2] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/commit/7f1088054c... [3] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/221658

comment by jasode · 2015-10-20 · in Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript