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Streamline.js by Bruno Jouhier (@Sage) is a library/tool that lets you write synchronous-looking JavaScript/CoffeeScript, and have it compile to Node-style asynchronous JavasScript/CoffeeScript. (It's amazing and super elegant.) https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs From the start, Streamline was designed to be exactly JavaScript/CoffeeScript, so that it works with existing editors and tools. No new keywords or syntax -- it simply reserves `_` as a function parameter name. Streamline files have thus kept `.js` and `.coffee` as extensions, so that no changes need to be made to tools; Streamline has just used the convention of ending file basenames with `_`, like `foo_.js` or `foo_.coffee`. Unfortunately, to get the most optimal Node.js integration, with on-the-fly compilation (like CoffeeScript), files now need to have their own extension. So Bruno has decided to make `._js` and `._coffee` the extensions of choice. The good news is that the language is still exactly JavaScript/CoffeeScript; it's only the extension that's changed. It's simple to add these extensions into our editors, but I'm wondering if we can add this to GitHub too. =) This change is super simple and shouldn't affect any other language, so I hope you guys are open to it. Thanks for your consideration!