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274 mentions on Hacker News by 181 people: 40 stories, 234 comments · first 2009-12-24 · latest 2025-11-10

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …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
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    CoffeeScript In The Wild
    story by DanielRibeiro · 2011-02-07 · 0 comments
  7. …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
  8. 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
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    List of languages that compile to JS
    story by clyfe · 2011-01-06 · 55 comments
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    What must be the ideal bug report (about a CoffeeScript closure idiom)
    story by philjackson · 2011-01-05 · 0 comments
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    Coffeescript 0.9.5 released
    story by DanielRibeiro · 2010-11-23 · 0 comments
  12. …" 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
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    Examples from _why's Poignant Ruby Guide in Coffee-script
    story by r11t · 2010-09-16 · 0 comments
  14. …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
  15. …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
  16. …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
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    The Jison grammar for CoffeeScript is surprisingly sexy
    story by fizx · 2010-03-09 · 0 comments
  18. …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
  19. 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
  20. …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
  21. …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
  22. …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
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    Ask HN: Review CoffeeScript 0.3
    story by jashkenas · 2010-01-27 · 0 comments
  24. …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