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You can also see on the "Contributors" graph a major increase in CoffeeScript contributions in the past year or so: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor... A bunch of people helped out: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/CoffeeScript-... And GeoffreyBooth coordinated the effort, posting regular status updates & calls for help, handling bugs / feature requests, etc. I didn't realize he was also writing most of the code! CoffeeScript2 started with a manifesto at https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss which turned into a cooperative effort with jashkenas to move CoffeeScript forward in a responsible way. An interesting story in its own right.

People might not know but CoffeeScript 2 is out already and supports the ES6 syntaxes. I've been using it for a large Vue.js SPA (with webpack) and some small projects, it really improves the development and saving me a lot of the time. https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss

Yep, the CoffeeScript folks are working on CoffeeScript 2 (I think JA is participating in some discussions but not actively working on it himself). It's not released officially, but there's a beta, and lots of discussions here: https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss

> The javascript language has advanced considerably. Not only has it adopted many of the syntax sugar features such as classes and fat arrow function, it has gone beyond coffeescript with features such as async/await and object spread properties. Just like CoffeeScript's good parts got into JavaScript, JavaScript's new features are being merged into CoffeeScript. 'async/await' becomes just an elegant 'await' in CS and pure generators are just functions that yield, without special annotations (i.e function*()). CoffeeScript is nearing its 2.0 release [1]. So the language is not "dead", and there is still room for "innovation" repeating the cycle anew. 1. https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss/issues/71

It is definitely less popular than it was pre-ES6, but it is still used. I personally use it at work every day, plus I notice there are quite a few libraries (both open source and closed source) that are obviously compiled from coffeescript. There is also work being done on a new version, CoffeeScript6, which will compile to ES6 and future ES standards. Check out the discussion at https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss