CoffeeScript is a lightweight programing language that compiles into JavaScript. It provides simple and easy to learn syntax avoiding the complex syntax of JavaScript. CoffeeScript is influenced by JavaScript, Ruby, YAML, Haskell, Perl, Python and has influenced MoonScript, LiveScript, and JavaScript.
The CoffeeScript language is designed by Jeremy Ashkenas. It was first introduced on 13 December 2009 on the git when Jeremy Ashkenas made the first git commit of CoffeeScript. On February 21, 2010, the first pure CoffeeScript compiler was released earlier the CoffeeScript compiler was in Ruby language.
