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Kishan S
15,410 PointsWhat is the main difference between NativeScript, JavaScript, CoffeeScript and TypeScript?
what are the uses?
2 Answers
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest TeacherCoffeeScript looks different to JavaScript and if your familiar with Ruby or Python this may look nice to you. It adds "syntactic sugar" to JavaScript. It compiles to plain JavaScript.
TypeScript can be written just as plain JavaScript but it has other additions, like specifying types like you would in Java or C#, but it's totally optional. It helps if you're using an IDE like Visual Studio or Web Storm. Lots of the "syntactic sugar" comes from ECMAScript 6 or ES6 the next version of JavaScript. It compiles to plain JavaScript.
NativeScript looks like a cross-platform app framework. But I haven't touched it.
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 PointsYou write shorthand javascript using coffeescript and typescript then it compiles them into native js. I always compare them to CSS preprocessors.