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When I was starting out as a programmer, I learned and worked in C++. There weren’t that many options for Mac OS 7 development at the time. I had a copy of MetroWorks CodeWarrior. It sure beat MPW, which was Apple’s own development environment. For languages the choices were pretty much Pascal, C or C++. Perhaps Pascal would have been a better first language to learn, but that’s not what I picked.

I previously wrote about the minefield that is JavaScript programming and several possible answers to the problem. One possible answer is TypeScript. It’s an OpenSource project from Microsoft and the language “is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript”. It builds on JavaScript by adding classes, modules, interfaces and optional type declarations. When compiled, the type d

CoffeeScript is an open source project that provides a new syntax for JavaScript. I have to say that I have a lot of respect for CoffeeScript and it got a lot of things right. The “golden rule” of CoffeeScript is “It’s just JavaScript”. That means there is a straightforward equivalent to every line of CoffeeScript. Consequently, there aren’t as many issues with JavaScript interop as there are with