I think it was also a forcing function for a lot of modern development patterns. Bundlers, sourcemaps, even chrome's prettyprint, all became mainstream around t

I think it was also a forcing function for a lot of modern development patterns. Bundlers, sourcemaps, even chrome's prettyprint, all became mainstream around the time coffeescript was relevant (~2011?) I think they all existed before then, debugging coffeescript was a huge pain in the ass without them.