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== History ==

On December 13, 2009, [[Jeremy Ashkenas]] made the first [[Git (software)|Git]] commit of CoffeeScript with the comment: "initial commit of the mystery language."<ref>Github. [https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/commit/8e9d637985d2dc9b44922076ad54ffef7fa8e9c2 'initial commit of the mystery language']</ref> The compiler was written in Ruby. On December 24, he made the first tagged and documented release, 0.1.0. On February 21, 2010, he committed version 0.5, which replaced the Ruby compiler with a [[Self-hosting (compilers)|self-hosting]] version in pure CoffeeScript. By that time the project had attracted several other contributors on [[GitHub]]<nowiki/> and was receiving over 30300-pages per day.

On December 24, 2010, Ashkenas announced the release of stable 1.0.0 to [[Hacker News]], the site where the project was announced for the first time.<ref>Hacker News. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037801 CoffeeScript 1.0.0 announcement] posted by Jeremy Ashkenas on Dec 24, 2010</ref><ref>Hacker News. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080 Original CoffeeScript announcement] posted by Jeremy Ashkenas on Dec 24, 2009</ref>