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CoffeeScript vs Lucee: What are the differences?

Developers describe CoffeeScript as "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. On the other hand, Lucee is detailed as "Light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language with a solid foundation". It is a light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM that enables the rapid development of simple to highly sophisticated web applications.

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

CoffeeScript is an open source tool with 15.3K GitHub stars and 2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to CoffeeScript's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of CoffeeScript
Pros of Lucee
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    Easy to read
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    Faster to write
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    Syntactic sugar
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    Readable
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    Elegant
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    Pretty
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    Javascript the good parts
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    Open source
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    Classes
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    "it's just javascript"
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    Compact code
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    Easy
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    Simple
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    Not Javascript
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    Does the same with less code
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    I'm jobs I'm software engineer
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    Interoperable with Java

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Cons of CoffeeScript
Cons of Lucee
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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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    Weak type system

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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.

What is Lucee?

It is a light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM that enables the rapid development of simple to highly sophisticated web applications.

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What are some alternatives to CoffeeScript and Lucee?
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.
TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
ES6
Goals for ECMAScript 2015 include providing better support for large applications, library creation, and for use of ECMAScript as a compilation target for other languages. Some of its major enhancements include modules, class declarations, lexical block scoping, iterators and generators, promises for asynchronous programming, destructuring patterns, and proper tail calls.
Babel
Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
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