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CoffeeScript can even be faster than hand-written JavaScript. See this comment I digged up by jashkenas: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443138 http://news
by ehsanu1 15y ago
CoffeeScript can even be faster than hand-written JavaScript. See this comment I digged up by jashkenas: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443138 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443138
Also, from the CoffeeScript website:
The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, passes through JavaScript Lint without warnings, will work in every JavaScript implementation, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten JavaScript.
http://coffeescript.org/ http://coffeescript.org/
- tlrobinson 15y agoIt's equally possible to write CoffeeScript that's slower than the equivalent JavaScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371471 To get the most performance out of any language you need to understand it very well.