Forgive me if this is off the mark, I'm no expert on rails, but isn't that just because CoffeeScript is very ruby-like and therefore makes a lot of sense in the

Forgive me if this is off the mark, I'm no expert on rails, but isn't that just because CoffeeScript is very ruby-like and therefore makes a lot of sense in the specific context of a ruby-based web framework? I wouldn't see it as a general endorsement of CoffeeScript in any broader sense.