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For the curious -- previous discussion about adding TameJS constructs: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1710 And the history of a previous attempt at doing something similar: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issue…

comment by jashkenas · 2011-12-18 · in Await and Defer in Coffeescript core

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Await and Defer in Coffeescript core

story by DanielRibeiro · 2011-12-18 · 25 comments

That regression is now fixed here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1842#commi...

comment by jashkenas · 2011-12-14 · in A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

If you want to help with the debugging aspect, the current bug in CoffeeScript is here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/558 There are relevant bugs open in WebKit-land, and Mozilla-land as well, and should be pointers to…

comment by pmuellr · 2011-12-14 · in A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

…=> to set the original function as a property of the bound function) Added a question on github: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1934

comment by jaekwon · 2011-12-14 · in A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

…and when unleashed with CS create things far more nasty than their JS counterparts. nasty: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/r... nasty: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/o... nasty:…

comment by tjholowaychuk · 2011-12-14 · in A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

…arrow does in Coffeescript. Except when there's a regression in the compiler, and then it doesn't. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1842 It's all good though, because "Pull requests are always welcome." :P

comment by mjijackson · 2011-12-14 · in A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

…must be working on something similar for Dart. Some progress has been made on the GitHub Issue: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/558

comment by geraldalewis · 2011-12-14 · in A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

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

comment by dangoor · 2011-12-12 · in MoonScript v0.2.0 Released

…keep spaghetti > callbacks under control. You may be interested in keeping an eye on this branch: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1710

comment by jashkenas · 2011-12-11 · in How would you change your favorite programming language to make it better?

The other side of the same coin, for the curious: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1495

comment by jashkenas · 2011-12-06 · in Katy: CoffeeScript Combinators

I think this is a little closer: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1495 The above link is actually a discussion about Dart’s “Monocle Moustache,” so I console myself that when people say it’s ugly, they mean the moustache…

comment by raganwald · 2011-11-30 · in Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant

It's being discussed here (along with some alternate syntax ideas): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1889

comment by clutchski · 2011-11-30 · in Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant

Can you please add support for CoffeeScript highlighting? https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Text-editor-... EDIT: Sorry, I should post this as a Github issue instead...

comment by drewda · 2011-11-29 · in Show HN: elegant open-source pastebin server (node.js & redis)

…Their main point seems to be that debugging source-translated code is hard - ignoring efforts like https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/558 This is definitely not constructive.

comment by nddrylliog · 2011-11-02 · in DAE think CoffeeScript is ridiculously overrated?

…a specific syntax for it, which doesn't seem to be possible for Javascript based languages (e.g. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1738 ).

comment by jussir · 2011-10-31 · in Chainvas: a tiny library that can add chaining to any API like Canvas and DOM

…syntax for chaining has been discussed several times for CoffeeScript, with different flavors: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1495 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1291…

comment by jashkenas · 2011-10-30 · in Chainvas: a tiny library that can add chaining to any API like Canvas and DOM

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Literate CoffeeScript

story by danh · 2011-10-21 · 0 comments

…of these languages[1], including Coffeescript and Clojurescript. You now even have options! [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by DanielRibeiro · 2011-10-10 · in Dart language

…out there that attempt to implement Ruby in JavaScript. See the "Ruby" section on this page: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... The point of CoffeeScript is something quite different. It's an attempt to tidy up…

comment by jashkenas · 2011-10-02 · in The Little Book on CoffeeScript

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/g...

comment by InclinedPlane · 2011-10-02 · in The Little Book on CoffeeScript

…penalty is a reason why CoffeeScript has rejected adding an operator overloading mechanism: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/846 But the question is whether a tracing JIT could largely eliminate this bottleneck by noticing…

comment by equark · 2011-10-01 · in Emscripten, an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler

There are literally dozens of languages that compile to JavaScript already: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by edtechdev · 2011-09-15 · in JavaScript is Not Web Assembly

…CoffeeScript has caught on like wildfire, when there are so many other AltJS languages out there ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... ) is that we're trying to take the deeply pragmatic approach. Mr. Schlueter…

comment by jashkenas · 2011-09-14 · in JavaScript is Not Web Assembly

…in April) in response to this article. You have to love a BDFL who's willing to discuss things. [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1191#issue...

comment by telemachos · 2011-09-13 · in CoffeeScript comprehensions are broken

(This appears to be by design: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1191 )

comment by mattdw · 2011-09-12 · in CoffeeScript comprehensions are broken

…before, and there are few things more frustrating than dealing with bugs in your language . [1]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues?labels=bug...

comment by esk · 2011-09-12 · in Why the Rampant Fanboyism Around CoffeeScript Worries Me

…but did you check with Google before posting that? "Tons of compilers" is exactly what we have now: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... . In fact my own job involves writing Java code that ends up being compiled…

comment by cousin_it · 2011-09-11 · in More information on Google's new web language, Dash

…enough that you can master it very quickly. > is there a clear unambiguous grammar for it anywhere? https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/g...

comment by TrevorBurnham · 2011-09-10 · in CoffeeScript: JavaScript without the Fail (slides)

Well, there was a related inconsistency which was certainly a bug. And it's now fixed: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1669

comment by TrevorBurnham · 2011-09-08 · in Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

Tons: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

comment by fogus · 2011-09-07 · in ClojureScript and Node.js

…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

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List of languages that compile to JS

story by franze · 2011-07-21 · 0 comments

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

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List of languages that compile to JS

story by ChrisArchitect · 2011-05-06 · 0 comments

…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