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|url=https://donatstudios.com/CoffeeScript-Madness

|title=CoffeeScript's Scoping is Madness

|date=25 July 2013

|access-date=2018-10-13

}}</ref> In particular, it completely disallows [[variable shadowing]] which makes reasoning about code more difficult and

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== Adoption ==

On September 13, 2012, [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]] announced that their browser-side code base had been rewritten from [[JavaScript]] to CoffeeScript,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dropbox.tech/application/dropbox-dives-into-coffeescript| title=Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript| date=13 September 2012|lastlast1= Wheeler| firstfirst1=Dan| last2= Mahkovec|first2= Ziga |last3= Varenhorst |first3=Chris|access-date=11 May 2013}}</ref> however it was migrated to [[TypeScript]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goldstein |first1=David |title=The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017 |url=https://dropbox.tech/frontend/the-great-coffeescript-to-typescript-migration-of-2017 |website=Dropbox.Tech |access-date=30 June 2020 |date=13 May 2020}}</ref>

[[GitHub]]'s internal style guide once said "write new JS in CoffeeScript", though it no longer does,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/styleguide/javascript|title=JavaScript · Styleguide · GitHub|publisher=Github.com|access-date=2015-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815075924/https://github.com/styleguide/javascript|archive-date=2013-08-15|url-status=dead}}</ref> and their [[Atom (text editor)|Atom text editor]] was also written in the language.<ref>[https://github.com/atom/atom Atom source code]. github.com. Retrieved on 2021-06-26.</ref>