# Is it better for Discourse to use JavaScript or CoffeeScript?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-use-javascript-or-coffeescript/3153
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [2013 年 2 月 15 日午後 1:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-use-javascript-or-coffeescript/3153 "2013-02-15T13:34:20Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2013 年 2 月 15 日午後 1:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-use-javascript-or-coffeescript/3153/1 "2013-02-15T13:34:20Z")

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Religion aside:

[http://wekeroad.com/2012/03/21/coffeescript-or-straight-up-js-i-suck-either-way](http://wekeroad.com/2012/03/21/coffeescript-or-straight-up-js-i-suck-either-way)

What is better for Discourse, CoffeeScript or JavaScript?

Notice, I am not particularly interested in personal preferences here.

I am interested in quality and frequency of potential contributions and long term sustainability of our platform.

We are using a hybrid CoffeeScript platform.

jQuery, JavaScript  
Ember.js JavaScript  
Most our stuff: CoffeeScript

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