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Plus the examples are written in 'coffeescript':-/

Alert works in plain old javascript.

Coffescript is an actual thing - no need to use "quotations". Besides, Messenger will work with plain js too (or any other compile-to-js lang) it's just the examples that are in coffeescript. You can write an example for alert in cs:

    alert "Blammo! A coffeescript alert example"

I believe the point is, why provide examples in CoffeeScript? Is there any benefit?

I'd venture to say less than 1% of people who know JavaScript also know CoffeeScript.

Personally, I was wondering what the language language it was.

If I see examples in Coffeescript, I'm not sure if you can also write it in Javascript, or if the whole thing is in Coffeescript or what.

I’m not clever enough for Coffeescript.

I wish the examples were written in such a way that if I showed it to coworkers half of them wouldn’t roll their eyes.

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