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by taude 4520 days ago
If you don't know JavaScript, you're really handicapped using any form of higher-level language wrapper. Coffeescript is syntax sugar. Run into problems or library incompatibility with other components and you don't know JavaScript...well...

BTW, for the record, I've never actually known a coffeescript dev who didn't know JavaScript, too, though.