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If Javascript is so great then why do we need Coffeescript?

• ChiperSoft 14y ago
  We don't.
• petercooper 14y ago
  Consider that in the browser, JavaScript is (with a few minor exceptions) the closest to a universal scripting runtime/VM that we can get. Targeting the browser, therefore, requires compiling down to JavaScript. So JavaScript (the language) and CoffeeScript can both be awesome in the way that Scala and Clojure have their different niches on the JVM.
• friggeri 14y ago
  Coffeescript is Javascript. Just another syntax.
• chetzit 14y ago
  Who are "we"?