Jeremy Ashkenas is a computer programmer known for creating the CoffeeScript programming language, co-creating the LiveScript language, and building the Backbone.js JavaScript framework and the Underscore.js JavaScript library. DocumentCloud is also listed among the projects he is known for. While working in the graphics department at The New York Times he shared the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Images, Graphics and Interactives. After the Times he worked for Observable, Inc., and as of 2020 he was at Substack Inc. He returned to The New York Times in June 2022 as Director of Graphics for Opinion.
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creation and co-creation of the CoffeeScript and LiveScript programming languages respectively
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creation and co-creation of the CoffeeScript and LiveScript programming languages respectively
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CoffeeScript is an open source programming language created in 2009 by Jeremy Ashkenas
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