JavaScript is a highly important language for the internet. It allows for interactivity, client side validation, frontend reactive paradigm programming frameworks and more. CoffeeScript is an alternative which introduces constructs from other languages, making it more focused on simplicity.
JavaScript
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Is widely used, has a rich ecosystem and is continuously being developed
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Has strong community support, given to the large amount of developers who have worked with JavaScript
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The frontend reactive frameworks, the most popular ones being React.js, Angular.js and Vue.js, have led to greater efficiency through only modifying a page when one component requires updating, hence circumventing the need to refresh a page for changes such as an email being received in an inbox
CoffeeScript
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Due to inspiration from Ruby, it focuses on simplicity of the code and readability, which may make it more beginner friendly as well
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CoffeeScript compiles into JavaScript, overall making it faster to execute
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While CoffeeScript may not have as many libraries developed for it as JavaScript, it still has a good range, allowing developers plenty of flexibility with what projects they can build