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VIEW EVENT INFORMATION: Dropbox |
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Dropbox Rewrote Its Entire Browser-Side Codebase In 1 Week |
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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 |
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Notable Organizations: Dropbox, Techcrunch |
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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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