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

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**Created:** [February 15, 2013, 1:34pm 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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**Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-use-javascript-or-coffeescript/3153/9 "2013-02-15T20:49:20Z")

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LOL you know what I mean 🙂 didn’t mean to troll :). There are concepts you need to understand sure but getting it to run is quite small.

I don’t think so (JShint). To me, you’ll likely find some great UX people out there who know their JS and want to help. The main questions here are:

Do they know Ember?  
Do they use CoffeeScript (and/or like it)

Frankly I don’t know the odds here but I’ll guess not many will know Ember but even more important (to me) is **how many are willing to learn it, and your code?**.

Of those… how many embrace and love CoffeeScript?

So many questions!

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