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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 ...

For many years, JavaScript had a bad reputation among developers. Sure, we would use it when we needed to do something dynamic in the browser, but we also would avoid it as much as possible. As I (and ...

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I recently decided to ditch plain old JavaScript in a Sinatra based application in favor of CoffeeScript . The existing JavaScript wasn’t terribly complex; however, I was looking at having to add some ...

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.