CoffeeScript, a simple languages that compiles to JavaScript and aims to make web developers’ lives easier, has just moved to a second major release, one that emphasizes syntax improvements.

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CoffeeScript, billed by its creator as “unfancy JavaScript,” is in development as a language that compiles into JavaScript but offers a different sense of style. Still in an alpha stage of development ...

CoffeeScript, which attempts to make it easier to program in JavaScript, has a newly released beta version that features ECMAScript 2015+ support. The currently downloadable 2.0 beta offers ES2015+ ...

When discussing CoffeeScript, you need to keep in mind that it is not a replacement for JavaScript. CoffeeScript is a "JavaScript generator." Your browser doesn't ...

CoffeeScript is a language that compiles down into JavaScript. “But why? JavaScript is so simple?” Bullcorn. If you don’t use JavaScript everyday the language is wonky and frustrating. When you need ...

For all JavaScript’s prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don’t like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce something ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The source code is ...