CoffeeScript

A dialect of JavaScript that is cleaner and more readable. In the following example, a variable named COUNTER is filled with an initial value of 100. CoffeeScript source code is converted into JavaScript. See transpiler.

CoffeeScript   counter = 100

   JavaScript     var counter = 100;

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