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CoffeeScript brought more to the table than just syntax changes. Some of the recent niceties we have in JavaScript today were influenced by it. Also, recall th
by runlevel1 3y ago
CoffeeScript brought more to the table than just syntax changes. Some of the recent niceties we have in JavaScript today were influenced by it.
Also, recall that the whole JavaScript ecosystem was kind of a mess when CoffeeScript was created. ES5 happened at around the same time and its predecessor, ES4, had gone nowhere. I don't remember polyfills really being a thing and you couldn't even use `forEach` reliably. Every JS question on StackOverflow used jQuery in the response whether or not you wanted it.