What is CoffeeScript?
It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.
CoffeeScript is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Why developers like CoffeeScript
Easy to read
Faster to write
Syntactic sugar
Readable
Elegant
Pretty
Javascript the good parts
Open source
Classes