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CoffeeScript never became popular in the first place. I stopped seeing it anywhere even before TypeScript caught on.
by smt88 4y ago
CoffeeScript never became popular in the first place. I stopped seeing it anywhere even before TypeScript caught on.
- hinkley 4y agoI ran into Coffeescript code on GitHub for the first time in years last week. Oh, Coffeescript, I remember that used to be a thing.
- MajimasEyepatch 4y agoIt was a thing for a hot minute in the early 2010s, before ES6, TypeScript, and the React/Angular/Vue trifecta came along and solidified what JavaScript would be from ~2015 onwards.
- treis 4y agoIt was the default for a while for Rails apps and Wiki tells me GitHub & Dropbox adopted it before moving to Typescript. I think for Rails shops it was popular and there was a brief time where it looked like it might become the thing to do on the front end. But I don't think it ever got the interop with existing JS right. Ultimately, improvements to JS came along and took the wind out of CoffeeScript's sails. Then TypeScript came along and killed whatever interest remained.