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== Adoption ==

On September 13, 2012, [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]] announced that their browser-side code base has been rewritten from [[JavaScript]] to CoffeeScript,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tech.dropbox.com/?p=361| title=Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript| date=13 September 2012|last= Wheeler| first=Dan| last2= Mahkovec|first2= Ziga |last3= Varenhorst |first3=Chris|accessdate=11 May 2013}}</ref> however it has been 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 |accessdate=30 June 2020 |date=13 May 2020}}</ref>.

[[GitHub]]'s internal style guide once said "write new JS in CoffeeScript", and while it no longer does, all the advice in the style guide references how to write good CoffeeScript,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/styleguide/javascript|title=JavaScript · Styleguide · GitHub|publisher=Github.com|accessdate=2015-11-30|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815075924/https://github.com/styleguide/javascript|archivedate=2013-08-15|url-status=dead}}</ref> and their [[Atom (text editor)|Atom text editor]] is also written in the language.<ref>[https://github.com/atom/atom Atom source code]. github.com. Retrieved on 2015-07-22.</ref>