CoffeeScript
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. Specific additional features include list comprehension and destructuring assignment.
| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: prototype-based, functional, imperative, scripting |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Jeremy Ashkenas |
| Developer | Jeremy Ashkenas |
| First appeared | December 13, 2009 |
| Stable release | |
| Typing discipline | dynamic, implicit |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | MIT License |
| Filename extensions | .coffee, .litcoffee |
| Website | coffeescript |
| Influenced by | |
| Haskell, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, YAML | |
| Influenced | |
| MoonScript, LiveScript, JavaScript | |
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.
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