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knowtheory on June 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York ...

Coffeescript was not funded by the Knight Foundation and was not developed for DocumentCloud.

Jeremy started Coffeescript as a personal project in his off time while building out DocumentCloud/Backbone/Underscore.

CodeCube on June 19, 2014 [–]

It was still funded by them, albeit indirectly :P Actually a great example of the kinds of halo effects you can get from funding open source development

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