Jeremy Ashkenas is a computer programmer known for the creation and co-creation of the

CoffeeScript CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python, and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehe ...

and LiveScript

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respectively, the Backbone.js

JavaScript JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior, of ...

framework and the Underscore.js JavaScript

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. While working in the graphics department at ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'', he shared the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Images/Graphics/Interactives. After working at the Times, he was an employee of Observable, Inc. As of 2020, he works at Substack Inc. Jeremy returned to The New York Times in June 2022 as Director of Graphics for Opinion.

References

External links

CoffeeScript website

Backbone.js website

Underscore.js website
Living people Web developers American computer programmers Free software programmers Programming language designers Gerald Loeb Award winners for Images, Graphics, Interactives, and Visuals Year of birth missing (living people) {{Compu-scientist-stub