CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

#1

Post by jashkenas » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:07 PM UTC

CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN
jashkenas.github.com

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Post by jashkenas » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:19 PM UTC

Things have come a long way in the past year, since this conversation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080

Some of the interesting recent features include executable class bodies, extended regular expressions, functions with default arguments, and YAML-style object literals.

Thanks for all the great suggestions and patches (almost a thousand Github issues, with many thousands of comments). The language has been very much a community driven project, and hopefully it reflects some significant part of the hard-earned wisdom of JavaScripters.

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#3

Post by pyrotechnique » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:34 PM UTC

Congratulations Jeremy et al.

CoffeeScript has been and will continue to be a tremendously powerful catalyst for change in the JavaScript community.

CoffeeScript has successfully: advanced our organisations attitude towards JavaScript on both the server and client; rendered working with complex systems -- such as node.js and WebGL -- a breeze and allowed us to focus solely on the real problems at hand rather than quirks in a language.

Everyone who has contributed in any way whatsoever, or even only just toyed with CoffeeScript should feel privileged to be part of the fantastic community surrounding the language.

Thankyou for the great gift that is CoffeeScript 1.0 this Christmas.

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#4

Post by tectonic » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:38 PM UTC

Great work Jeremy! I've been using CoffeeScript extensively for an upcoming project, and having written 1000+ lines of it so far, I'm loving it!

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:42 PM UTC

jashkenas wrote: post #2

Things have come a long way in the past year, since this conversation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080 Some of the interesting recent features include executable class bodies, extended regular expressions, functions with default arguments, and YAML-style object literals. Thanks for all the great suggestions and patches (almost a thousand Github issues, with many thousands of comments). The language has be…

Way to go!

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Post by ludwigvan » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:49 PM UTC

The best new language of the year 2010. Thanks jashkenas!

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#7

Post by cjoh » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:55 PM UTC

It's pretty clear that jashkenas is the Chuck Norris of Javascript.

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#8

Post by eddieplan9 » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:57 PM UTC

Congrats to the team! I've been using CoffeeScript together with underscore.js, backbone.js and of course jQuery. Together they make functional style programming and building MVC pattern so much easier. Thanks for building such an expressive language.

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#9

Post by railsjedi » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 7:59 PM UTC

Congrats on the release! Here's hoping for a CoffeeScriptConf in 2011

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#10

Post by aonic » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 8:00 PM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #4

Great work Jeremy! I've been using CoffeeScript extensively for an upcoming project, and having written 1000+ lines of it so far, I'm loving it!

Now if someone made a Cappuccino like framework on top of CoffeeScript instead of Objective-J I'd be in heaven :)

Out of curiosity, what are you making?