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2009-2015
CoffeeScript
JavaScript's nicer syntax
Money Burned
N/A
Body Count
Thousands of devs
Lifespan
2190 days (6 years)
☠️ Official Cause of Death
ES6 stole all its good ideas
CoffeeScript showed JavaScript what it could be. Then ES6 added arrow functions, classes, and destructuring. Everyone switched back to JS.
Epitaph
It's just JavaScript
With significant whitespace
ES6 came for us
💡 The Lesson
Build the platform, not a layer on top
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I Was There Too
Raise your hand. Be honest. We all fuck up.
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