jashkenas/coffeescript
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…closely followed by... a city I've never heard of in Japan? Toss it in the graveyard with the rest: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
comment by colinmegill · 2015-06-21 · in Ask HN: ReactJS – Do you use it? Do you like it? -
…here's a whole big long list of other languages. Most of which don't use the asm.js "weird hack". https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
comment by fragmede · 2015-05-06 · in PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web -
List of languages that compile to JavaScript [1] [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
comment by oska · 2015-04-01 · in Firefox: The Next Mobile Platform -
The .NET ecosystem already had his fair share of these, see https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
comment by Guillaume86 · 2015-03-31 · in Bridge.NET. Write C#. Run JavaScript -
…why this approach has been used. For the performance. Seems that "new" is way faster. [2] [1] : https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/912 [2] : https://jsperf.com/obj-create-vs-new/4
comment by drinchev · 2015-03-12 · in New-less JavaScript (2013) -
…convinced our company to use it for the past 3+ years, and personally using it for ~5 years ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/439 ), this article is missing one point. Community. Yes, there will be a CoffeeScript community…
comment by timmfin · 2015-02-28 · in Don’t Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 Transpilers -
…valid. That means that code affected by this change was relying on undocumented behavior. [1]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/3819
comment by Zr40 · 2015-02-20 · in Coffeescript 1.9.0 contains a backwards incompatible change -
…Blue Storm: https://www.assembla.com/spaces/bluestorm/wiki/ I got these from: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
comment by desdiv · 2015-02-05 · in Scala.js no longer experimental -
…to be the argument?). I'm willing to bet it's not going to reduce the count in this list by much. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu... I'm comfortable writing either as I'm sure many are, but when given the…
comment by rapind · 2015-01-30 · in Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 -
…that went into 1.9: Lydell's big reworking of how variable generation determines what names to use: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/commit/8ab15d73722... Alubbe's first draft of adding (automatic) generator support to…
comment by jashkenas · 2015-01-29 · in CoffeeScript v1.9 -
I was the original reported of https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/238 . And the short answer is: not that easy. Coffeescript wants to keep the semantics of javascript, but it wants to not have the noise of "var x = ..." all…
comment by onn · 2015-01-21 · in Ask HN: Forking CoffeeScript to Fix the Mad Mad Mad Scope Issue -
List of languages that compile to JavaScript https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
comment by j_s · 2015-01-15 · in Show HN: C#-to-JavaScript compiler powered by Microsoft Roslyn -
Support for generators has been merged into Coffeescript master — https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pull/3240
comment by kylemathews · 2015-01-14 · in Io.js 1.0.0 -
…to be major motivators. Glad to hear you've been learning Go -- there's a transpiler for that! 1. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
comment by smt88 · 2015-01-06 · in Ask HN: Should I use languages that cross compile to JS? -
If few people hate programming in Javascript then explain this to me: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
comment by Rygu · 2014-12-30 · in Generation JavaScript -
…though, so you're wrong that it hasn't taken off. Coffescript, Typescript, ClojureScript, Elm, etc. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
comment by hcarvalhoalves · 2014-12-13 · in The Two Pillars of JavaScript: Part 1: How to Escape the 7th Circle of Hell -
No. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/tree/master/lib/co...
comment by kyllo · 2014-11-04 · in A programming language in 450 lines of JavaScript -
…right? There are plenty of languages compile to JavaScript [1], maybe you can try some of them. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
comment by lifthrasiir · 2014-10-31 · in Stability as a Deliverable -
…mass. Even Coffeescript, which is probably the most popular one, has a small community. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
comment by aaron-lebo · 2014-10-30 · in Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript -
…If you haven't seen it yet, check out the source code to coffeescript. Here is the source file: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/blob/master/src/gr... Here is a nicely rendered version of the same file:…
comment by jewel · 2014-10-09 · in Termtris: A Game Like Tetris in Ten Functions -
…features. But jashkenas considers CoffeeScript mostly done. As michaelficarra mentions in https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/3073 , "CoffeeScript needs to evolve or die" - When ES6 gets implemented, just get rid of the…
comment by jeswin · 2014-10-02 · in Farewell CoffeeScript -
…the same in plain CoffeeScript with generators — using a new patch landed a couple of minutes ago: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pull/3240/files -> try body = yield request "https://x.io/" yield request…
comment by jashkenas · 2014-09-19 · in Handling Errors in IcedCoffeeScript -
maybe this is interesting too: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/%5BHowto%5D-H...
comment by poseid · 2014-07-11 · in Ask HN: How to start programming language design? -
…And CoffeeScript: http://coffeescript.org/#strings (apparently implemented relatively recently ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/3229 ) and borrowed from LiveScript. There are other language which support multiline strings…
comment by klibertp · 2014-05-11 · in Common Python Mistakes -
…list of languages that compile to JavaScript (in the "C#, F#, .NET related languages" section): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
comment by edtechdev · 2014-04-10 · in NetJs: A .NET to TypeScript and JavaScript compiler -
…in Try CoffeeScript in this issue: “Use rich code editor in Try CoffeeScript on coffeescript.org” – https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/3076 I’m glad to hear that compile errors will finally be displayed in the output area in…
comment by roryokane · 2014-04-03 · in Announcing TypeScript 1.0 -
…here's a non contrived CS example directly from CS's source which I find really hard to understand: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/g... tokens = [] for name, alternatives of grammar grammar[name] = for alt in…
comment by olalonde · 2014-03-31 · in Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer -
…bad code. This is very easy to verify: most CS project on GitHub, starting with the CS code itself ( http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script ) contain a lot of bad ambuigous uses of the language. A very similar thing happens with Perl…
comment by ceronman · 2014-03-30 · in Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer -
Lol, I can't address every single one https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
comment by WalkerCodeRangr · 2014-03-30 · in Why TypeScript Isn't the Answer -
…as assembly, even though there are now almost 100 other languages that compile to javascript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... and Google, Microsoft, and Facebook (hack) are all sticking to languages that use…
comment by edtechdev · 2014-03-24 · in Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO -
…(asm.js) and the developers of dozens of other languages that compile to javascript, I guess: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
comment by edtechdev · 2014-03-09 · in Show HN: LiteScript -
…dialect that targets asm.js and takes advantage of CPS for recursion like Scheme does. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Javascript:SpiderMonkey:OdinMonkey
comment by vinalia · 2014-03-02 · in Lisp: A Language for Internet Scripting and Programming (1998) [pdf] -
…a compile-to-javascript dialect of Erlang. This is a list of compile-to-javascript languages: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... Is any developer going to give every language on that list the same…
comment by gordonguthrie · 2014-02-21 · in Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular? -
…area: https://github.com/paiq/blackcoffee http://mrluc.github.io/macros.coffee/docs/macros.html https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3171
comment by jashkenas · 2014-02-13 · in React, JSX, and CoffeeScript -
…true or Euclidean modulo. Here's the pull request that introduced it and two other new operators: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/2887
comment by btmills · 2014-01-29 · in CoffeeScript 1.7.0 -
…how the function named 'o' provides simplicity as it plays well paren-less function calls. [0] - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/g...
comment by elwell · 2014-01-29 · in CoffeeScript 1.7.0 -
Oh goodie! My critical bugfix is now in the CoffeeScript stable: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3193
comment by elwell · 2014-01-29 · in CoffeeScript 1.7.0 -
…CoffeeScript by fixing an ascii art inconsistency in the cup of coffee's water vapor in the README: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3193
comment by elwell · 2014-01-28 · in Rename GTFO to GOAWAY -
…to the ticket; A quick search would have revealed there are many tickets on the topic of shadowing: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/search?q=shadowin... And this ticket covers this specifically…
comment by emn13 · 2014-01-25 · in The worst thing about CoffeeScript -
coming soon: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3240
comment by tdumitrescu · 2014-01-13 · in CoffeeScript's Time is Waning For Me -
…wrote a macro system for coffeescript: https://github.com/mrluc/macros.coffee Related discussions: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3171 https://github.com/gkz/LiveScript/issues/328
comment by sheetjs · 2014-01-08 · in Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead -
…the language around it. Some links: http://prezi.com/zkhsz49ownaw/coffeescript-vs-typescript/ https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
comment by thenerdfiles · 2013-12-25 · in JavaScript: Help me select MVC (or MV*) Framework? -
…Here are about 100 javascript-based compilers, including tools for compiler writers at the bottom: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
comment by edtechdev · 2013-11-25 · in Join the Compiler Creation Club -
looks like from coffeescript readme [0]. [0]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/READM...
comment by elwell · 2013-11-05 · in Let's have coffee. -
…languages that can compile to javascript, treating it like a runtime (including dart itself): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
comment by edtechdev · 2013-11-05 · in Angular Announces AngularDart -
…This was submitted by the author of CoffeeScript[2] [1] https://github.com/gkz/LiveScript [2] https://github.com/jashkenas/CoffeeScript
comment by feistyio · 2013-11-02 · in Grasp: Structural Search and Replace for JavaScript -
…terribly useful in the end, because of the vast semantic mismatch between the two languages. See: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... > I've never gotten over the usage of "->" or "=>" to signify a function.…
comment by jashkenas · 2013-10-29 · in For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language -
…Asm.js and source maps. In 2013 you don't have to write JavaScript to use the web as a platform. 1. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... 2. http://keminglabs.com/blog/angular-cljs-weather-app/
comment by graue · 2013-10-22 · in Unboxing and setting up the Firefox OS ZTE -
…http://scratch.mit.edu/ And you can see some other javascript-based visual programming tools here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
comment by edtechdev · 2013-09-23 · in Drakon – A visual language for specifications from the Russian space program