CoffeeScript and JavaScript

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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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• 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 arguments even 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!