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The list of languages that compile to JavaScript

story by chewbacha · 2016-04-14 · 0 comments

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

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story by niklasbuschmann · 2016-01-16 · 0 comments

…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

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List of languages that compile to JS

story by gebt · 2015-08-10 · 0 comments

…I searched and found this, which indicates they're open to it. Someone just needs to implement it. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/issues/3162#issuec...

comment by benatkin · 2015-06-25 · in Atom 1.0

…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

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List of languages that compile to JS

story by fs111 · 2015-02-26 · 0 comments

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Long-term viability of CoffeeScript

story by tosh · 2015-02-22 · 0 comments

…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