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CoffeeScript: JavaScript Evolved
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Summary
Scott Davis introduces CoffeeScript through a demo, showing how to create a Hello World application and why it is an improvement over JavaScript.
Bio
Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a consulting company specialized in Groovy and Grails solutions, and the co-founder of the Groovy/Grails Experience conference. He is also the author of “Getting Started with Grails” and “Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java”, and a regular speaker at various conferences like No Fluff Just Stuff, JavaOne, OSCON, TheServerSide, and QCon.
About the conference
SpringOne 2GX is a one-of-a-kind conference for application developers, solution architects, web operations and IT teams who develop business applications, create multi-device aware web applications, design cloud architectures, and manage high performance infrastructure. The sessions are specifically tailored for developers using the hugely popular open source Spring technologies, Groovy & Grails, and Tomcat. Whether you're building and running mission-critical business applications or designing the next killer cloud application, SpringOne 2GX will keep you up to date with the latest enterprise technology.
Apr 11, 2012
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CoffeScript changes one fundamental aspect
by jean-simon Larochelle,
CoffeScript changes one fundamental aspect
by jean-simon Larochelle,
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Significant white spaces. Unfortunately I really hate that. Groovy does not add significant whitespace to Java so I don't really think it represents a good comparison for CoffeScript. Its too bad because CoffeScript really would be a better way to write JavaScript.