Web-based CoffeeScript Alternatives

There are many alternatives to CoffeeScript as a web app if you are looking for a replacement. The best Online alternative is JavaScript, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to CoffeeScript and ten of them are available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Online alternatives to CoffeeScript are Kotlin, Dart, Babel and Bosque.

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  1. JavaScript icon
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    JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but also used in many non-browser environments.

    61 JavaScript alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • AROS
    • Haiku
     
  2. Kotlin icon
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    Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, and the JVM version of its standard library depends on the Java Class Library, but type inference allows its syntax to be...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Dart icon
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    Dart (originally called Dash) is a Web programming language developed by Google. It was unveiled at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, 2011 October 10-12. The goal of Dart is "ultimately to replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development on the open web platform.

    70 Dart alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  4. Babel icon
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    Babel is a generic multi-purpose compiler for JavaScript. Using Babel you can use (and create) the next generation of JavaScript, as well as the next generation of JavaScript tooling.

    18 Babel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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    • Node.JS
     
  5. Bosque icon
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    The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
     
  6. RapydScript icon
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    RapydScript is a pre-compiler for JavaScript, similar to CoffeeScript, but with cleaner, more readable syntax. The syntax is very similar to Python, but allows JavaScript as well. It's not another Python-in-a-browser clone, it's actually JavaScript with more Pythonic...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. PureScript was initially designed by Phil Freeman in 2013. He started to work on PureScript since he wasn't satisfied by other attempts to transpile Haskell to JavaScript (e.g. using Fay, Haste, or GHCJS).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  8. Objective-J icon
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    Objective-J is a programming language developed as part of the Cappuccino web development framework. Its syntax is nearly identical to the Objective-C syntax and it shares with JavaScript the same relationship that Objective-C has with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  9. Amber is a language (derived from Smalltalk) and environment built for the web. With Amber, client-side web development finally gets the power and productivity that exists in other Smalltalk dialects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
     
  10. MicroPython icon
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    MicroPython aims to implement the Python 3.4 standard (with selected features from later versions) with respect to language syntax, and most of the features of MicroPython are identical to those described by the “Language Reference” documentation at docs.python.org.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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