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CoffeeScript and JavaScript (The Changelog #29)
July 23, 2010
38:10
18.67 MB
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Wynn and special guest host Micheil Smith sat down with Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud to chat about CoffeeScript, a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
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Notes and Links
- CoffeeScript - a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
- DocumentCloud - an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.
- Haskell - an advanced purely functional programming language
- Everything in CoffeeScript is an expression
- Switch statements in CoffeeScript compile to if/else chains
- CoffeeScript has powerful comprehensions for Arrays, Objects, and Ranges
- Existential operator should look familiar to Rubyists
- Splats make JavaScript
argumentseven easier - ECMAScript 5.0 - the latest JavaScript standard
- ECMAScript Harmony
- CoffeeScript’s String Interpolation
- CoffeeScript’s Class/inheritance features
- Function binding - as President Clinton said “It depends on what your definition of ‘this’ is…” ;-)
- Jeremy loves working with
<canvas>to create Buddhabrot Fractals - Node.js finds its way into every episode!
- NPM is the new standard for Node Package Management
- JSLint cleans up your JavaScripts.
- Jade gives your JavaScript Haml envy from TJ Holowaychuk
- Lincoln Shire Poacher - RaphaelJS graphics from Chris Lloyd
- Underscore.js - featured in Episode 0.0.5
- Comet
- @CoffeeScript - Unofficial Twitter account
- Join us in #coffeescript on Freenode
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!