Yes, Cappuccino is an all or nothing framework, it's not meant for interoperability with other JavaScript libraries. You'd have to like the whole deal.
I don't have a big problem with switching between CoffeeScript and regular JavaScript, though. I'd regard it as some kind of shorthand for writing code, similar to what more elaborate template languages (haml etc.) do to HTML. It doesn't do weird transformations (last time I looked at it), so you should be able to debug the produced code.
Right now, I'm not using it in any production code, as for simple client-side programming with JQuery, it's not a big win. I'm seriously considering it for a future node.js project, though. I found myself using too many snippets when writing JavaScript code, which reminds me to much about my last Java projects…
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Yes, Cappuccino is an all or nothing framework, it's not meant for interoperability with other JavaScript libraries. You'd have to like the whole deal.
I don't have a big problem with switching between CoffeeScript and regular JavaScript, though. I'd regard it as some kind of shorthand for writing code, similar to what more elaborate template languages (haml etc.) do to HTML. It doesn't do weird transformations (last time I looked at it), so you should be able to debug the produced code.
Right now, I'm not using it in any production code, as for simple client-side programming with JQuery, it's not a big win. I'm seriously considering it for a future node.js project, though. I found myself using too many snippets when writing JavaScript code, which reminds me to much about my last Java projects…