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The Frontend of the Computer

Oxide and Friends

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The Early Days of JavaScript

CoffeeScript really hit that era when JavaScript was like getting out of this very painful stage where it was kind of an awkward, incomplete language. And they're like, okay, we can kind of see it starting to move, but we want something better. As soon as TypeScript and others came on the scene and, you know, babble on other things that let you sort of compile to get these later functions, then CoffeeScript was abandoned pretty quickly.

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