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CoffeeScript vs Vala: 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, Vala is detailed as "An object-oriented programming language". It is a programming language using modern high level abstractions without imposing additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

CoffeeScript and Vala can be primarily classified as "Languages" tools.

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 Vala
  • 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
  • 1
    Fast as C
  • 1
    Easy sintax simular to C#/Java with sugar from Pyrthon
  • 1
    Much easier to do Concurrent/Parallel vs C/C++
  • 1
    Productive
  • 1
    ARC instead of GC, which is able not only to delete obj
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    The only lang that allows you to create safe OOP wraps
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    With GIR/SWIG u can call vala from any lang
  • 1
    Easy learning curve if you're coming from C lang
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    Very documented. valadoc.org

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Cons of CoffeeScript
Cons of Vala
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    No ES6
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    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 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 Vala?

    It is a programming language using modern high level abstractions without imposing additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

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    JavaScript
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