CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python, and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and destructuring assignment. Wikipedia

Created Year: 2009
Designed by: Jeremy Ashkenas
Developed by: Jeremy Ashkenas
Operating systems: cross-platform
Implemented in: CoffeeScript
File extensions: coffee

Wikidata: Q1106819

Influenced: LiveScript • MoonScript • TypeScript

Influenced by: Erlang • Haskell • JavaScript • Python • Ruby

Programming paradigms: functional programming • imperative programming • multi-paradigm programming • prototype-based programming

Language types: multi-paradigm programming language • off-side rule language

alert "Hello World"