CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript is a language that compiles to JavaScript with a cleaner, more concise syntax inspired by Python and Ruby. It was very popular in the early 2010s, before ES6 adopted many of its ideas.

• Creado por Jeremy Ashkenas
• Año 2009
• Paradigma: Multi-paradigm · transpiled
• Extensiones: .coffee, .litcoffee

Para qué se usa

• Web frontend
• More readable scripts
• Legacy projects

A favor

• Very concise syntax
• Less boilerplate than JS
• Readable

En contra

• Largely obsolete (ES6 won)
• Needs compilation
• Shrinking community

Ecosistema

• Node.js
• npm
• Cake

Ejemplo

console.log "¡Hola, mundo!"