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CoffeeScript vs WebAssembly: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is WebAssembly? A binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. It is an open standard that defines a portable binary code format for executable programs, and a corresponding textual assembly language, as well as interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.
CoffeeScript and WebAssembly 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, WebAssembly provides the following key features:
- Efficient and fast
- Safe
- Open and debuggable
CoffeeScript and WebAssembly are both open source tools. CoffeeScript with 15.3K GitHub stars and 2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than WebAssembly with 3.49K GitHub stars and 347 GitHub forks.
Typeform, thoughtbot, and Trello are some of the popular companies that use CoffeeScript, whereas WebAssembly is used by Cubbit, NeosIT GmbH, and IHMC. CoffeeScript has a broader approval, being mentioned in 904 company stacks & 1023 developers stacks; compared to WebAssembly, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of CoffeeScript
- Easy to read199
- 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 WebAssembly
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Cons of CoffeeScript
- No ES63
- Corner cases in syntax1
- Parentheses required in 0-ary function calls1
- Unclear what will be grouped to {…}1
Cons of WebAssembly
- Security issues2
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