Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

I tried CoffeeScript for a bit, but ended up just using JavaScript directly. JS has one rule that I get tripped up on (though much less so these days): the semicolon insertion. I kept getting mixed up with CoffeeScript's whitespacing and other magicallisms that I decided making sure the JS was clean and ensuring "use strict" was being used was going to be less of a burden.