July 2011 - Posts - Jon Galloway  July 2011 - Posts  An
introduction to CoffeeScript  I first heard about CoffeeScript
over a year ago, when we talked to Chris Williams about JsConf
2010, but it's really blown up lately. The official CoffeeScript
website, CoffeeScript.org, sums it up beautifully:    We
recently talked to Trevor Burnham on Herding Code about
CoffeeScript - Trevor is the author of CoffeeScript: Accelerated
JavaScript Development (Pragmatic Press), and I finally buckled
down to take deeper look at CoffeeScript.  Download / Listen
Why another language that compiles to JavaScript?  Let's step
back for a minute...  Do you like Javascript [] Yes [] No  I
love JavaScript... and yet I've developed a healthy fear of it.
It's an amazingly deep language. Like many web developers, I
followed this progression:    1. I started by copying little
scripts into my HTML to do simple things, and I thought it was a
toy language. Heck, it's a scripting language, it's not rocket
surgery, right?   2. I used it more