Stuff like (fab) and CoffeeScript* show how easy it is to build on top of the V8 and node.js platform. And these toy languages/frameworks also have great perfomance given the non-blocking nature of node.js and the optimizations of V8. Amazing and happy to see more of these projects :)
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Stuff like (fab) and CoffeeScript* show how easy it is to build on top of the V8 and node.js platform. And these toy languages/frameworks also have great perfomance given the non-blocking nature of node.js and the optimizations of V8. Amazing and happy to see more of these projects :)
* http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
CoffeeScript is a language. It doesn't run natively on node.js, so I don't really see the relationship here.
Indeed, CoffeeScript was built on Ruby, and its REPL on Narwhal.
Here's a relationship: if I was going to write all my web apps in JavaScript, I would want something like CoffeeScript to ease the pain.
CoffeeScript compiles to JavaScript and it can run natively on V8/node.js (since V8/node.js executes JavaScript)...