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by frik 3355 days ago
Is Coffee-Script still a thing? Looking at Atom source code it's still 80% in Coffee-Script. Why hasn't someone rewrote (eg transpiled and than refactored) it in JS with hand-tuned optimisation? https://github.com/atom/atom/tree/master/src
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Was listening to a podcast with one of the first Atom authors (Nathan Sobo) and he mentioned that all new code is in ES6 these days. The codebase is pretty big. They're doing a convert-on-touch approach he said.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-changelog/id34162326...