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AWK vs CoffeeScript: What are the differences?

What is AWK? A language for text processing, data extraction and reporting. A data-driven scripting language consisting of a set of actions to be taken against streams of textual data – either run directly on files or used as part of a pipeline – for purposes of extracting or transforming text, such as producing formatted reports.

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.

AWK and CoffeeScript belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

AWK and CoffeeScript are both open source tools. CoffeeScript with 15.3K GitHub stars and 2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than AWK with 206 GitHub stars and 41 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, CoffeeScript has a broader approval, being mentioned in 462 company stacks & 1009 developers stacks; compared to AWK, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

Decisions about AWK and CoffeeScript
Justin Dorfman
Open Source Program Manager at Reblaze · | 1 upvote · 79.9K views

If you have a file (demo.txt) that has 3 columns:

Column-1    Column-2    Column-3
Row-1a      Row-2a      Row-3a         
Row-1b      Row-2b      Row-3b
Row-1c      Row-2c      Row-3c
Row-1d      Row-2d      Row-3d
Row-1e      Row-2e      Row-3e

and you want to only view the first column of the file in your CLI, run the following:

awk {'print $1'} demo.txt

Column-1
Row-1a
Row-1b
Row-1c
Row-1d
Row-1e

If you want to print the second column of demo.txt, just replace $1 with $2

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Pros of AWK
Pros of CoffeeScript
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    • 199
      Easy to read
    • 179
      Faster to write
    • 126
      Syntactic sugar
    • 104
      Readable
    • 104
      Elegant
    • 73
      Pretty
    • 53
      Javascript the good parts
    • 48
      Open source
    • 44
      Classes
    • 35
      "it's just javascript"
    • 16
      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 AWK
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        No ES6
      • 1
        Corner cases in syntax
      • 1
        Parentheses required in 0-ary function calls
      • 1
        Unclear what will be grouped to {…}

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      What is AWK?

      A data-driven scripting language consisting of a set of actions to be taken against streams of textual data – either run directly on files or used as part of a pipeline – for purposes of extracting or transforming text, such as producing formatted reports.

      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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