jashkenas/coffeescript
Unfancy JavaScript observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6103
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 894
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
16599 stars · 1981 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
CoffeeScript is a small programming language that compiles one-to-one into readable JavaScript, exposing JavaScript's good parts with cleaner syntax like significant whitespace, comprehensions, and classes. It ships as an npm package with a 'coffee' CLI for running and compiling .coffee files, plus a Node.js compiler library.
Use cases
- compile coffeescript to javascript
- run .coffee scripts with node
- write javascript with cleaner syntax
- maintain a legacy coffeescript codebase
- transpile coffeescript in a build pipeline
- learn a language that compiles to js
When to choose
- you have existing CoffeeScript code to compile or maintain
- you prefer terse, Python-like syntax over modern JavaScript
- you want one-to-one readable JS output with no runtime overhead
When to avoid
- starting a new project - modern JavaScript/TypeScript covers these features natively
- you need a large ecosystem or active community
- you want static type checking
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
compiler programming-language cli developer-tools programming-languages compilers web-development frontend developer-tools cli cross-platform browser coffeescript transpiler javascript language-compiler npm-package source-maps legacy-javascript nodejs
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript · fetched 2026-08-28 · e86d1e3f877b
- homepage: https://coffeescript.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · e310a53910f4
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/coffeescript · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8f52d8b74e8e
- site_page: https://coffeescript.org/v1 · fetched 2026-08-29 · ee16400c1522
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| jashkenas/coffeescript | main | 32 |
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