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story by gaoprea · 2014-01-15 · 48 comments

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?

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CoffeeScript gains multi-line method call chaining

story by elisee · 2013-12-05 · 2 comments

…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

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List of languages that compile to JS

story by notdonspaulding · 2013-10-30 · 0 comments

…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

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CoffeeScript fat arrow memory leak found, fixed

story by sandinmyjoints · 2013-10-22 · 0 comments

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The creator of CoffeeScript actually merged my pull request to fix coffee steam

story by elwell · 2013-10-04 · 1 comment

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Hygienic macro proposal [Coffeescript]

story by teamonkey · 2013-09-24 · 0 comments

…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

…start considering the new features as soon as they begin to work in browsers, and on Node. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/3073

comment by doublerebel · 2013-08-27 · in Use yielding (await) in javascript today, with traceur

…this same process, bootstrapping itself away from an original Ruby-based compiler (at this moment: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/commit/6446e0004c... ), Kal is now in some sense "two self-hosted steps" away from a "normal"…

comment by jashkenas · 2013-08-18 · in How Kal Compiles Itself

…alternative to await (for CoffeeScript) that is more one-to-one with the generated JavaScript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2762

comment by omphalos · 2013-08-07 · in Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

…needed at any point. You might find something similar for your stack if you haven't already looked: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Web-framewor...

comment by aseemk · 2013-08-05 · in Intro to CoffeeScript

…so far.) [1] Like representing datastructures. Or that subclass-without-constructor subtlety ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2956 ).

comment by calibraxis · 2013-07-28 · in Scoping in CoffeeScript and JavaScript

Lovely work, and it looks like it wasn't too difficult to add: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3078/files If anyone wants to chime in on the pull request itself, input is welcome -- particularly about how to address the…

comment by jashkenas · 2013-07-21 · in Generator (yield keyword) support in CoffeeScript for Node.js

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Why nearly all markup languages ignore s, can we change it?

story by jiyinyiyong · 2013-07-03 · 0 comments

…apps in languages other than JavaScript, well, here are "a few" other languages that you can use: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... . This includes C, C++, C#, Python, Java, etc. Heck, even I have developed a…

comment by Yoric · 2013-07-01 · in Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones

…fantasy" paragraph, well, let's just politely ignore that trollbait. Caveat: I'm a Mozillian. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... [2] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki

comment by Yoric · 2013-07-01 · in Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones

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Languages that compile to JS

story by EzGraphs · 2013-06-21 · 0 comments

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List of languages that compile to JS

story by necubi · 2013-06-21 · 0 comments

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The initial commit of CoffeeScript — its file extension was '.jaa'

story by amrnt · 2013-06-17 · 1 comment

Here's eight options for you. Enjoy: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by jashkenas · 2013-06-02 · in A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

For the curious, here's eight other fun implementations of "Python in JavaScript" to explore: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by jashkenas · 2013-06-02 · in A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

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Coffeescript Mixins

story by ayushgta · 2013-05-30 · 0 comments

Here's a list of languages that compile down to Javascript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... . I didn't realize how many there were.

comment by fossuser · 2013-05-29 · in Elm at Prezi

If one of these hundred alternative languages that compiles to JavaScript takes off ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... ) AND has features that would benefit from a better underlying "assembly" language (like…

comment by edtechdev · 2013-05-06 · in Why JavaScript Is Doomed

…that compile to javascript out there now, many of which do support compiling in the browser: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by edtechdev · 2013-03-23 · in Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart

> Languages that compile to JS are very common in 2013 web dev. Here is a nice list: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by ahoge · 2013-03-21 · in Start — Dart web framework inspired by Sinatra

Here's the author of this issue being touchy in another thread: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2836#issue... > Before blaming me further This reminds me of DHH's "Rails is Omakase" post.…

comment by benatkin · 2013-03-20 · in An Open Source Author's Lament

>dfkaye https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2864#issue... Is that guy serious?

comment by drivebyacct2 · 2013-03-20 · in An Open Source Author's Lament

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An Open Source Author's Lament

story by jnwng · 2013-03-20 · 55 comments

…and yield[1] is a big turnoff for me. I want to move towards ES6 as quickly as possible. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/FAQ

comment by egeozcan · 2013-03-05 · in CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps

…simplify it. It was hardly touched at all in 2012. It is small and mindful of feature creep. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/commits/master/sr...

comment by heydenberk · 2013-03-04 · in CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps

Watch out when updating to this. There are still some issues being resolved. See: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/2751 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2765 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/…

comment by mintplant · 2013-03-04 · in CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps

A bit of that is in this release as well, thanks to Jason Walton. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/g... Source location information is now preserved through the parse, although it's not yet being emitted as a…

comment by jashkenas · 2013-02-25 · in Literate CoffeeScript

…well, phpnode asked basically the same thing regarding indentation (should use F5 more often). [1]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/s... [2]: like nodes.coffee: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/mast…

comment by epidemian · 2013-02-25 · in Literate CoffeeScript

…they're safe) for that reason. [1] http://kangax.github.com/nfe/#jscript-memory-management [2] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/366#issuec... [3] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/FAQ - "Q: Is there any way…

comment by nadaviv · 2013-02-23 · in Common JavaScript Gotchas

…back to javascript, not to mention about two dozen other statically typed javascript compilers: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... If types were approved 13 years ago, javascript apps could have been made to…

comment by edtechdev · 2013-02-15 · in Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – working draft

There are a alternatives: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... I, for one, really like Dart. It's very nice to use.

comment by ahoge · 2013-01-31 · in Flight: A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter

…which compile to JS, most notably CoffeeScript and ClojureScript. * [1] http://wtfjs.com * [2] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS

comment by superbobry · 2013-01-14 · in We switched to Node.js: the good and the not so good

…as several Haskell to JavaScript compilers here (Fay, ghcjs, & jshaskell seem to be more popular): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by edtechdev · 2013-01-01 · in A tiny language called Z

There is no shortage of compile-to-JS languages. For a non-comprehensive list, see https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... For many of the offerings in the list, the problem, IMHO, is the lack of a complete story.…

comment by eddieplan9 · 2012-12-15 · in Brython - Python to Javascript translator

…https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_JavaScript_Problem https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by spacemanaki · 2012-12-15 · in Brython - Python to Javascript translator