We found out about it and started to look for alternatives to XML eventually. Hopefully, if the world does come to believe that compiling to JS is an unnecessary layer of abstraction, we'll have enough force of change from browser vendors to actually implement a lower-level change. At least with XML, we were free to change whenever... in-browser technologies isn't going to change without a concerted effort from just about everyone involved in browsers.
I presume you are talking about CoffeeScript and not something like GWT. The thing about it is that it is not really a layer of abstraction. Just consider an alternative syntax for javascript. The javascript that it produces is really readable.
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We found out about it and started to look for alternatives to XML eventually. Hopefully, if the world does come to believe that compiling to JS is an unnecessary layer of abstraction, we'll have enough force of change from browser vendors to actually implement a lower-level change. At least with XML, we were free to change whenever... in-browser technologies isn't going to change without a concerted effort from just about everyone involved in browsers.
I presume you are talking about CoffeeScript and not something like GWT. The thing about it is that it is not really a layer of abstraction. Just consider an alternative syntax for javascript. The javascript that it produces is really readable.