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CoffeeScript vs Chicken Scheme: What are the differences?

What is CoffeeScript? Unfancy JavaScript. CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

What is Chicken Scheme? A programming language, specifically a compiler and interpreter. Fast implementation of Scheme programming languge, which compiles directly to C.

CoffeeScript and Chicken Scheme can be categorized as "Languages" tools.

CoffeeScript and Chicken Scheme are both open source tools. CoffeeScript with 15.3K GitHub stars and 2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Chicken Scheme with 77 GitHub stars and 3 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Chicken Scheme
Pros of CoffeeScript
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    • 199
      Easy to read
    • 179
      Faster to write
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      Syntactic sugar
    • 104
      Readable
    • 104
      Elegant
    • 73
      Pretty
    • 53
      Javascript the good parts
    • 48
      Open source
    • 44
      Classes
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      "it's just javascript"
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      Compact code
    • 15
      Easy
    • 13
      Simple
    • 13
      Not Javascript
    • 2
      Does the same with less code
    • 1
      I'm jobs I'm software engineer

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    Cons of Chicken Scheme
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        No ES6
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        Corner cases in syntax
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        Parentheses required in 0-ary function calls
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        Unclear what will be grouped to {…}

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      What is Chicken Scheme?

      Fast implementation of Scheme programming languge, which compiles directly to C

      What is CoffeeScript?

      It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.

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        What are some alternatives to Chicken Scheme and CoffeeScript?
        Racket
        It is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp. It is designed to be a platform for programming language design and implementation. It is also used for scripting, computer science education, and research.
        Common Lisp
        Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research. As one of the earliest programming languages, Lisp pioneered many ideas in computer science, including tree data structures, automatic storage management, dynamic typing, conditionals, higher-order functions, recursion, and the self-hosting compiler. [source: wikipedia]
        Clojure
        Clojure is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system.
        Haskell
        It is a general purpose language that can be used in any domain and use case, it is ideally suited for proprietary business logic and data analysis, fast prototyping and enhancing existing software environments with correct code, performance and scalability.
        JavaScript
        JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
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