# alongubkin/spider

Unsurprising JavaScript - No longer active

Repository: https://github.com/alongubkin/spider
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alongubkin-spider
Homepage: http://spiderlang.org
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-10-21T00:47:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4330, "days_push": 3239, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1326, forks 46 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:22.759619+00:00)

## What it is
Spider is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript (ES5 and ES6), combining ideas from Go, Swift, Python, C#, and CoffeeScript. It ships as an npm CLI (spider-script) for executing and compiling .spider files.

## Use cases
- write javascript with better syntax
- compile a language to es5 and es6
- alternative to coffeescript or typescript
- use pattern matching and destructuring in javascript
- run .spider scripts from the command line

## When to choose
- you want a CoffeeScript-like language with modern features compiling to JS
- you need a small language with pattern matching, channels, and async support

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained or actively developed language
- you want strong type safety like TypeScript
- you need community support or long-term ecosystem compatibility

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: compiler, programming-language, cli
- domain: programming-languages, compilers, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: compile-to-javascript, language-compiler, coffeescript-alternative, es6, peg-parser, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- alongubkin/spider (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:22.759619+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:20:28.401536+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alongubkin/spider (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:22.759619+00:00, sha 24d18bc93a6f)
  - homepage: http://spiderlang.org (fetched 2026-08-29T12:05:33.115762+00:00, sha 9a86836d8eb0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.