CoffeeScript
Sign in to saveCoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python, and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Some added features include list comprehension and destructuring assignment.
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- CoffeeScript
- Programming language.logo
- CoffeeScript-logo.svg
- Programming language.paradigms
- Multi-paradigm: prototype-based, functional, imperative, scripting
- Programming language.family
- ECMAScript
- Programming language.designer
- Jeremy Ashkenas
- Programming language.developer
- same
- Programming language.typing
- dynamic, implicit
- Programming language.scope
- lexical
- Programming language.programming language
- CoffeeScript
- Programming language.platform
- x86-64
- Programming language.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Programming language.license
- MIT
- Programming language.file ext
- .coffee, .litcoffee
- Programming language.influenced by
- Haskell, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, YAML
- Programming language.influenced
- MoonScript, LiveScript, JavaScript
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- prototype-based programming
- Founded by
- Jeremy Ashkenas
- Developer
- Jeremy Ashkenas
- Designed by
- Jeremy Ashkenas
- Official website
- coffeescript.org
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- inspired by
- Q34010
- copyright license
- MIT License
- operating system
- cross-platform
- inception
- 2009-12-13
- software version identifier
- 2.0.0-beta5
- influenced by
- Q34010
- dialect of computer language
- Q2005
- file extension
- coffee
- media type
- application/vnd.coffeescript
- source code repository URL
- github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript
- programming paradigm
- aspect-oriented programming
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/coffeescript
- programmed in
- CoffeeScript
- typing discipline
- dynamic typing
- publication date
- 2009-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Syntax
- Development and distribution
- Latest additions
- Extensions
- Adoption
- See also
- References
- Further reading
CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python, and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Some added features include list comprehension and destructuring assignment.
CoffeeScript support is included in Ruby on Rails version 3.1 and Play Framework. In 2011, Brendan Eich referenced CoffeeScript as an influence on his thoughts about the future of JavaScript.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CoffeeScript” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.