I don't understand what the big deal is here. All this patch does is make a application.js.coffee instead of application.js, and add support for actually gener

I don't understand what the big deal is here. All this patch does is make a application.js.coffee instead of application.js, and add support for actually generating JS from this. One of the recurring arguments I've seen is that this change will make it harder for people to get started with Rails. I really don't understand how this is the case, because if you understand what public/javascripts is for and what javascript_include_tag does, you should also be able to write normal javascript all day long. Hell, you don't even need that, adding your own HTML to include a script into the page works too (as always). There is no need to write CoffeeScript if you don't want to/don't know how to; write all the js you want. In reality, the only outcome of this will be more people discovering and learning CoffeeScript. I seriously doubt this will discourage anyone from learning Rails. If it does, they were bound to find something that discouraged them eventually.