Is there a similar trend in any other language? Seems like the answer is "no" for Ruby, Go, Scala, and TypeScript.
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors
It doesn't say anywhere that it's in "maintenance" mode.
But it's true that it could be more active: http://coffeescript.org/#changelog