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Dropbox Rewrote Its Entire Browser-Side Codebase In 1 Week
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Type: News
Date: Thursday 13 September 2012, 05:56 AM
Media: Techcrunch

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About the organization Dropbox:
Type: Business
Sub-Types: Website, File Hosting Agent, Picture Hosting Agent, Video Hosting Agent, Audio Hosting Agent
Notable Organizations: Dropbox, Techcrunch
The engineering team at Dropbox re-wrote its browser-side codebase one week last July, according to a post on the Dropbox tech blog. The rewrite was done to translate all of its JavaScript into a language called CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript is a language that compiles into JavaScript. It offers an alternative syntax that looks more like Python or Ruby, with the goal of enabling…
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