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Re:Atom 1.0 by shadowmint on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:21PM (#9779014)
The UI library is in coffee script; if you want use a UI for your plugin, youre pretty much stuck using it.

(..and yes, its technically possible to do with plain js, but I challenge any of the 'but just use js' folk to link to a popular plugin, with a UI, that does)

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Re:Atom 1.0 by ben336 on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:13PM (#9780249)
You can call CoffeeScript functions from JavaScript and vice versa. There's no reason that you can't use the UI library from code written in JS. The fact that its written in CoffeeScript is an implementation detail
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Re:Atom 1.0 by shadowmint on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:04PM (#9781715)
Inheritance. DOM element functions. Gee, I must have never tried this and have no idea what I'm talking about right?

I tell you what, you try it and tell me how it goes for you?

It's really not that simple.

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Re:Atom 1.0 by cdcarter on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:11PM (#9780937)
But all the docs are in Coffeescript, and it's quite hostile to a new dev.
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Re:Atom 1.0 by outworlder on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:48PM (#9781128)
Grab a cup of coffee, start reading the CoffeeScript documentation. Your coffee won't even by cold by the time you finish with it. Start coding.

Seriously, CofeeScript is tiny.

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