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I'm not the hugest fan of coffeescript, but I don't know if you can consider it to be an 'exotic' language at this point. It's quite widely accepted.

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on which metric do you base it on, to be widely accepted?

Looking at github's top languages, it sits at #11. I thought it was higher than that, but it's still nothing to sneeze at.

Maybe saying it's widely accepted isn't entirely appropriate, but it certainly is gaining a lot of traction.

I'm not sure that this will ever be a fair statistic because coffeescript should never really be used for shared / module code IMO. I love CS for my application code but would never release a package on github in CS, only JS.

Once you are releasing things outside of your controlled/team environment using anything but JS is just a loop for others to jump through.

I imagine a lot of projects have both CS source for development, with compiled JS for deployment. That might skew the stats between JS+CS, but it's a good indicator of CS' popularity compared to other languages.

Considering that, releases would be in JS, as they should be.

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