https://github.com/markbrown4/eloquentcoffee
Eloquent JS examples in CoffeeScript
https://github.com/markbrown4/eloquentcoffee
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Eloquent JS examples in CoffeeScript
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/markbrown4/eloquentcoffee
- Owner: markbrown4
- Created: 2018-01-06T22:58:38.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-02-24T14:50:12.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-19T23:38:56.783Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: coffeescript, coffeescript2, eloquent-javascript, javascript
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 130 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Eloquent CoffeeScript
Marijn Haverbeke's [Eloquent JS](https://eloquentjavascript.net/) is an excellent
book, here's my solutions to the exercises written in CoffeeScript.
## Run the examples
```bash
npm install coffeescript -g
coffee 1-triangle.coffee
```
## Why CoffeeScript?
> The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: “It’s just JavaScript.”
As the ES6 train gained a lot of momentum `coffee` lost steam. However,
[the trends](https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=coffee-script&package=coffeescript&from=2014-01-05)
still show download growth over the past few years and there's still a lot of big
projects using it.
Version 2 changed the compilation target from ES3 to ES2015 and aligned with new
language features like ES2015 Modules, classes, template literals, async / await
and destructuring. Now that both languages are close to feature parity, the only
compelling reason to write CoffeeScript is the clean expressive syntax.
I wrote CoffeeScript every day for fours years and then ES6+ for the last two,
I've just been reacquainted and it's still a pleasure to program in. Keep an open
mind and give it a try, you may enjoy it.
## Things I like about ☕️
- Clarity of the program shines through with less syntax and significant whitespace
- Everything is an expression, statements like `for`, `if` and `switch` produce a value
- Implicit `return` of last statement
- Aliases, operators & shorthands allow for more expressive code