CoffeeScript

Summary

CoffeeScript is a programming language that transcompiles to JavaScript, adding syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python, and Haskell to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. It features significant whitespace, Ruby-style string interpolation, and implicit return of the last statement.

Paradigms

functional, object-oriented, imperative, prototype-based

Domains

web development, scripting

Key Features

first-class functions, closures, string interpolation, destructuring, lambdas, iterators/generators, modules

Typing

dynamic system, structural typing, weak typing, full inference, runtime checking, aggressive type coercion, no type annotations

Compilation

transpiled

Influenced By

JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Haskell, Erlang

Influenced

LiveScript, TypeScript

Ratings

File extensions

coffee, _coffee, cake, cjsx, iced

External Links

• CoffeeScript official site
• CoffeeScript jobs at Devjobsscanner
• r/coffeescript subreddit
• Trending GitHub repositories