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by pjwal 4152 days ago
The "all or nothing" with CS has always been a non starter for me. I find it really hard to believe that it is possible for a team of more than 2 or 3 to remain happy with a choice to use it after any extended period of time. If you're out there though, I would love to hear from you!

And yes, this can be said for almost any tool choice, but my spidey sense tells me the half life for CS is about that of something like Jira.

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I don't know what you consider an extended period of time, but I've been writing CoffeeScript full time for 2 years now, and it's been like that at my day job (moviepilot.com) for at least 2 more before I came. Couldn't be happier!

Team size varies between 8 to 15 people, roughly.

mobile.nytimes.com is written in CoffeeScript (frontend and backend) and is maintained by a team of around 8 people. AFAIK all of the developers are fine with it.