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CoffeeScript vs Qore: What are the differences?
CoffeeScript: A little language that compiles into JavaScript. 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; Qore: Embeddable Multithreaded Programming Language. It is an interpreted scripting language with multithreading and thread-safe programming, optional strong typing and exception handling, code embedding and sandboxing and automatic memory management and c++ style destructors.
CoffeeScript and Qore belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by CoffeeScript are:
- String Interpolation
- Statement Modifiers
- Callback Handling
On the other hand, Qore provides the following key features:
- interpreted scripting language
- multithreading
- thread-safe programming
CoffeeScript and Qore are both open source tools. It seems that CoffeeScript with 15.3K GitHub stars and 2.01K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Qore with 20 GitHub stars and 7 GitHub forks.
Pros of CoffeeScript
- Easy to read198
- Faster to write179
- Syntactic sugar126
- Readable104
- Elegant104
- Pretty73
- Javascript the good parts53
- Open source48
- Classes44
- "it's just javascript"35
- Compact code16
- Easy15
- Simple13
- Not Javascript13
- Does the same with less code2
- I'm jobs I'm software engineer1
Pros of Qore
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Cons of CoffeeScript
- No ES62
- Corner cases in syntax1
- Parentheses required in 0-ary function calls1
- Unclear what will be grouped to {…}1