I'd imagine with ES6 all nicely wired up in this release that moving away from Coffee would be an obvious next step but was way to large to undertake in one release.
CoffeeScript was never the "default". Since the asset pipeline was added new rails projects contained only a single 'application.js' which included any default JS libs. There has never been coffeescript in a default rails project. That makes the default plain-old JavaScript. CoffeeScript has just been there as a default gem so it was available to you by default, but you have never been forced or even strongly encouraged to use it.
That said, I love CoffeeScript and continue to use it to this day. It gets a lot of hate and I've been pushed to write a lot of ES6 these days, but CoffeeScript is still much more succinct.
evolve2k|9 years ago
examancer|9 years ago
That said, I love CoffeeScript and continue to use it to this day. It gets a lot of hate and I've been pushed to write a lot of ES6 these days, but CoffeeScript is still much more succinct.
sealthedeal|9 years ago
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