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.

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CoffeeScript, which attempts to make it easier to program in JavaScript, has a newly released beta version that features ECMAScript 2015+ support. The currently downloadable 2.0 beta offers ES2015+ ...

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 development ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The source code is ...