Is CoffeeScript still a thing?

Is CoffeeScript still a thing?

As of today, January 2020, CoffeeScript is completely dead on the market (though the GitHub repository is still kind of alive).

Is CoffeeScript deprecated?

With the rise of ES6/7 and TypeScript, it seemed like CoffeeScript would become obsolete. But it’s not. CoffeeScript was one of the pioneers of the compile-to-JavaScript concept. In fact, some of things you now see in the modern JavaScript appeared in the first version of CoffeeScript some 8 years ago.

Is CoffeeScript like JavaScript?

Bottom Line. One crucial difference between the two languages is that TypeScript is the superset of JavaScript while CoffeeScript is a language which is an enhanced version of JavaScript. Not just these two languages but there are other languages such as Dart, Kotlin, etc. which can be compiled into JavaScript.

Who uses CoffeeScript?

Who uses CoffeeScript? 888 companies reportedly use CoffeeScript in their tech stacks, including Glovo, Accenture, and Typeform.

How popular is CoffeeScript?

This month’s Tiobe Index of language popularity has CoffeeScript entering its top 100 languages for the first time, ranked 64th, albeit with a rating of less than 1 percent, like most of the languages featured in the index.

Is TypeScript the next CoffeeScript?

Bottom Line. One crucial difference between the two languages is that TypeScript is the superset of JavaScript while CoffeeScript is a language which is an enhanced version of JavaScript. Not just these two languages but there are other languages such as Dart, Kotlin, etc.

What is the point of CoffeeScript?

CoffeeScript is a lightweight language based on Ruby and Python which transcompiles (compiles from one source language to another) into JavaScript. It provides better syntax avoiding the quirky parts of JavaScript, still retaining the flexibility and beauty of the language.

Who developed CoffeeScript?

Jeremy Ashkenas
CoffeeScript

Is CoffeeScript similar to Python?

CoffeeScript is a programming language whose syntax is clearly designed to match much of Python (with additional inspirations from Perl, ECMAScript, Ruby, etc.). But most documentation for learning CoffeeScript assumes knowledge of JavaScript (which CoffeeScript compiles to), which is far messier.