That's a really big deal. I wanted to fix a bug or two and saw coffee last year and noped out. Glad to hear they are going back on that one.
Kind of curious why they made that decision in the first place.
Oh, they are a Ruby shop. Right.
This is some of the best news I have heard in a while. I really wanted to love atom, but just couldn't wrap my head around the decision to use coffeescript
I assume ES6 didn't exist at the time (or wasn't feasible to use). If you're not used to javascript it can be quite annoying to develop in.
I think it's still a work in progress. I still see .coffee files in atom/src.
All new code is in ES6+ rather than CoffeeScript, which is significant.