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Yeah. If I see Coffeescript I generally tend to feel a bit of reluctance to get involved.

Sometimes I'll translate it into real Javascript but most times I will just pass it on and saying "nevermind". It's just not the "real" thing and something has to be truly great or promising for me to bother with the indirection.

That, and like VBScript, I just don't like Ruby or Python, so I'll stay away from projects using it.

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There's a general tide moving towards ES6 in the Atom community, and away from CoffeeScript. See https://github.com/atom-community/environment for an example package. That doesn't mean all existing packages will be rewritten overnight, but it does mean you'll see a shift, even in core packages.

I do not understand the argument that CS is not "the real thing".

JavaScript isn't the real thing either. On the way to the processor there are so many different layers of abstraction to go through. CS is just another one of those layers.

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