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coffeescript vs typescript on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, typescript leads coffeescript vs typescript with 76,664 mentions to coffeescript’s 12,292, peaking in Feb 2026.

Mention-over-time for coffeescript vs typescript, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

coffeescript12,292 mentions, peak Nov 2011typescript76,664 mentions, peak Feb 2026
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

JS-superset succession: CoffeeScript's 2011–14 hype cools, then TypeScript's 2019+ rise shows which abstraction actually won.

The stories behind each line

Top “coffeescript” stories
  1. Announcing CoffeeScript 2 632 points · 2017
  2. Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS 361 points · 2017
  3. Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 351 points · 2015
  4. CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability 349 points · 2012
Top “typescript” stories
  1. A 10x Faster TypeScript 1,827 points · 2025
  2. TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] 1,328 points · 2025
  3. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript 1,204 points · 2024
  4. Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal 1,094 points · 2025

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