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by phzbOx 5221 days ago
But who said you had to use CoffeeScript? You can perfectly use this library by writing standard javascript.

The author decided to write the source code of the library in CoffeeScript, which then compiles to perfectly valid javascript that you can import.

The analogy about Python is that you don't have to know C to be able to use a Python library written in C..