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…and contribute to an existing compiler. There are dozens to choose from that compile to javascript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... or java's JVM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages or…

comment by edtechdev · 2011-08-26 · in Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.

…test(description, runTest)` and uses the builtin node assert module. Simple and got the job done: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/Cakef...

comment by snprbob86 · 2011-08-17 · in BDD For Node - Introducing vows-bdd

…I know that Cappuccino and GWT are older than node.js, but it is not too late to change. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by DanielRibeiro · 2011-08-05 · in CappCon 2011 On the Fringe - Pushing the Web to its Limits

…and this threads for CoffeScript implementation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776938 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/350

comment by falava · 2011-07-24 · in Escaping Callback Hell with ClojureScript macros

A few are listed here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... (which also includes Clojurescript)

comment by DanielRibeiro · 2011-07-21 · in ClojureScript

…of Tame.js-style CPS to the CoffeeScript compiler -- but there's a lot of prior work there already: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/241 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/287…

comment by jashkenas · 2011-07-18 · in Tame.JS: Flow-control by the makers of OkCupid.com

I added it here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Text-editor-... Nice to see CoffeeScript support in so many different environments!

comment by benatkin · 2011-07-04 · in Show HN: Weekend project - VS2010 CoffeeScript syntax highlighting

…emulator written in JavaScript. You can run almost any language in the web browser with that! See https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... for a (possibly exhaustive) list of languages like this. Whether these…

comment by stephenjudkins · 2011-06-18 · in Ask HN: Any alternative to JavaScript in sight?

…back, I translated a few of these into CoffeeScript as examples for the repo. They're pretty fun: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/tree/master/examp...

comment by jashkenas · 2011-06-13 · in Collection of classic computer science algorithms written in JavaScript

…Javascript as a runtime for many languages (more than .NET even I believe at this point): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... Countless javascript libraries: in the browser https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki…

comment by edtechdev · 2011-06-06 · in HTML5-based Windows 8 enrages .Net devs, alienates Linux and Mono

…aren't quite there yet, although just about everything else has been ported to run on javascript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... And making basic/visual basic on top of javascript is a little challenging…

comment by edtechdev · 2011-06-04 · in How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

…Ruby in Ruby ) to leverage any of these implementations, possibly reusing a JIT mechanism. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by DanielRibeiro · 2011-05-22 · in Opal: Ruby runtime and library on top of Javascript

( It's being worked on https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/558/ )

comment by geraldalewis · 2011-05-19 · in Node.js training exercises, in CoffeeScript

Mostly derived from @jashkenas wiki page: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... BTW, mobl isn't tierless, it targets client-side development.

comment by evangineer · 2011-05-11 · in AltJS: Alternative JavaScript languages and compilers

…it took me a while to find it initially, and even then, re-locating it was sometimes difficult: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/%5BHowTo%5D-...

comment by geraldalewis · 2011-05-02 · in CoffeeScript 1.1.0 released

…[0]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970268.aspx [1]: http://ironpython.net/browser/ [2]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by skymt · 2011-04-30 · in Mozilla Chromeless 0.2

…to make callbacks look more like linear code). These proposals were rejected in CoffeeScript (see https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/350 ) because they take the language too far away from the underlying JavaScript—in…

comment by TrevorBurnham · 2011-04-30 · in CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development

What experience do people have with other tools for generating javascript? https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... I'm wondering how they compare, and what people have to say.

comment by jamesbritt · 2011-04-29 · in CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development

He is the primary author of Coffeescript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script I am not sure, but I believe he also has authored or contributed to the others.

comment by southpolesteve · 2011-04-25 · in The Guantanamo Files

…CoffeeScript maps to which line of output JavaScript. ( I believe this is actively being worked on: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/558 ). Here are some good resources that have helped me: http://yuiblog.com/crockford/…

comment by geraldalewis · 2011-04-14 · in Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript

…than most alternatives. But it is a different language, and a nicer one in my humble opinion. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by DanielRibeiro · 2011-04-10 · in The jQuery Divide:Understand where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins

…tons[1] of great languages that compiled down to it, including but not limited to Coffeescript. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by DanielRibeiro · 2011-03-23 · in Mobl - A new open source language for mobile devices

…or for worse, JavaScript is that language. (Along with all of the languages that compile to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... )

comment by jashkenas · 2011-01-29 · in AngularJS: If HTML were built for writing web apps

List of languages that compile to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by clyfe · 2011-01-13 · in Clojurejs - A naive Clojure to javascript translator

…" bit is about, it's just the past month of changes since 0.9.4, which are considerable indeed: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/compare/0.9.4...m... If this article inspires you to get started, and you don't mind doing a little…

comment by jashkenas · 2010-11-08 · in A new way to think about programs

…this quite avidly before _why's disappearance. Also I liked CoffeeScript version of the pamphlet: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/exampl... I did (for my own leisure) write Perl5 version of this pamphlet. As some…

comment by draegtun · 2010-07-23 · in The Io Language

…right into the middle of the JavaScript that's generated for the CoffeeScript Lexer looks like this: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/lib/le... Pretty readable. You can use a Webkit or Firebug debugger just as you…

comment by jashkenas · 2010-07-17 · in CoffeeScript -- You Are Totally Gonna Hate It

…for the curious, the history of the proposed implementation of "defer" in CoffeeScript: Part I: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/241 Part II: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/287 Part III:…

comment by jashkenas · 2010-07-04 · in Defer: Taming asynchronous javascript with coffeescript

…days. On a related side-note... here's the "Hello World" Node.js web server ported to CoffeeScript: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/exampl...

comment by hugs · 2010-03-05 · in JavaScript: It’s Not Just for Browsers Any More

Ah yes, we have a ticket for this. http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/132 Now that there's the self-compiler that can be run without ever saving the compiled JavaScript as a file, this becomes far more important.

comment by jashkenas · 2010-02-15 · in Tell HN: Meet CoffeeScript

…comprehensions. I've pushed a patch that implements your suggestion, and all the tests are passing: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/commit/7667e167322... Thanks for that.

comment by jashkenas · 2010-02-14 · in Tell HN: Meet CoffeeScript

…implied an object literal. obj: prop: value prop2: value2 edit: I've opened a ticket for this, here: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/146

comment by jashkenas · 2010-02-14 · in Tell HN: Meet CoffeeScript

…at the Jison parser, using a little DSL function that makes for a nice style of grammar declaration: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/gr... If you'd like to play with the CoffeeScript-in-CoffeeScript…

comment by jashkenas · 2010-02-14 · in Tell HN: Meet CoffeeScript

…it a go. Edit: Alright, got a branch that starts with a little significant whitespace going here: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/tree/whitespace It can't handle the first of the two cases mentioned above just yet, but it…

comment by jashkenas · 2009-12-24 · in CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles to JavaScript. Happy Holidays, HN