CoffeeScript is a light language that compiles down to JavaScript. Because it is a language that compiles to another language, some might classify it as a "transcompiler" instead of just a compiler. CoffeeScript's syntax is heavily inspired by Python and Ruby. For the most part, statements in CoffeeScript correspond one-to-one with their equivalent in JavaScript.
CoffeeScript was created out of love for the JavaScript language, but also out