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I was going to suggest just going back to it's original name of LiveScript but it looks like that was subsumed by a language from the creator of CoffeeScript. How rude.

Early in my career, in the early 2000's I was tasked with modernizing a massive site that had many <script type="application/livescript"> tags throughout. I still don't fully understand, was it released to the public under this name at some point?

My googling just now indicates there may have been just a single public beta of Netscape that called it that. How strange.






I don't think the creator of CoffeeScript (Jeremy Ashkenas) was (directly) ever involved in LiveScript. LiveScript was forked from Coco which was forked from CoffeeScript.

Wikipedia does claim Ashkenas was involved [1], but LiveScript website doesn't list him [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveScript_(programming_lang... [2] http://livescript.net/#thanks




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