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I don't think the CoffeeScript step exists in the pipeline. CoffeeScript is the language the JVM is written in, but I don't expect it outputs CoffeeScript itself.

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From a purely abstraction perspective that step makes sense. However it would be omitted if we were talking about a run time stack.

There is the compilation of the JVM via CoffeeScript to Javascript. It's hard to illustrate that in text.

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