What would you call the concept of CofeeScript or Sass to be?
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There is this rising trend with web development of making new pseudo languages to extend the functionality of JavaScript, CSS and HTML given that those are static and their metamorphosis or evolution is painfully slow due to the variety of browser providers.
So I am currently having a concept dilema on how to categorize them for a book I was made to write by my employer as no one seems to have a name for these pseudo languages.
A tiny list of them :
JavaScript: LiveScript, Metalua, Uberscript, EmberScript.
HTML: Razor, Java Scriptlets.
CSS : LESS, Sass.
I believe the concept of these pseudo languages and a language or an extension of a language is quite different.
First these languages do not extend any functionality currently existing on HTML or CSS or JavaScript, they simply work around it.
And also they do not "compile" to an intermediate language, they are merely 1-1 translated to something that only then can be compiled.
What would you call them?
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