Civet is described as a kind of modern CoffeeScript for TypeScript, which may not sound promising if you remember CoffeeScript as I do. Before you write it off, though, consider what Civet has to ...

There are a number of tools to help in large-scale JavaScript development, such as CoffeeScript and Falcon.js, but Adobe preferred TypeScript because it could be run from within Visual Studio.

Microsoft could have done so, despite TypeScript being a rival in the JavaScript space. And, as she noted, developers also had Script# or CoffeeScript to make JavaScript programming easier.

CoffeeScript, which attempts to make it easier to program in JavaScript, has a newly released beta version that features ECMAScript 2015+ support. The currently downloadable 2.0 beta offers ES2015 ...