CoffeeScript is a language that compiles down into JavaScript. “But why? JavaScript is so simple?” Bullcorn. If you don’t use JavaScript everyday the language is wonky and frustrating.

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.

CoffeeScript, billed by its creator as “unfancy JavaScript,” is in development as a language that compiles into JavaScript but offers a different sense of style. Still in an alpha stage of ...

For some, JavaScript is mostly good enough, just a little awkward and ugly to write, so we have, for example, the popular CoffeeScript language. CoffeeScript makes a lot of changes to JavaScript's ...

was to create an entirely new language that compiles into JavaScript. This language, which he called CoffeeScript, is not designed to be run directly (although you can do so, with the right tools).

It attempts to address some of the same issues that Google’s Dart programming language does, but without a radical departure from JavaScript. Like CoffeeScript, TypeScript compiles to JavaScript ...