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How Coffeescript trended on Hacker News

Coffeescript was mentioned 12,294 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2011 with 334 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Coffeescript appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
12,294
Peak month
Dec 2011 (334)
First seen
2009
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Coffeescript

  1. 1.Announcing CoffeeScript 2 632 points · 207 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS 361 points · 219 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 351 points · 168 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability 349 points · 218 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript 327 points · 256 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript 320 points · 199 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017 307 points · 209 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript 290 points · 193 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN 289 points · 53 comments · 2010 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.A Case Against Using CoffeeScript 286 points · 141 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps 240 points · 77 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Literate CoffeeScript 234 points · 108 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN

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