I think JavaScript gets many things right, but has an overly verbose syntax. So CoffeeScript hits a sweet spot by adding syntactic sugar while hewing close to the underlying language.
You and Alanis Morissette may call that ironic. I'd call it practical.
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Am I the only one who is amused by the irony of these guys?
i.e. "lets use Javascript end to end", and then the very same people go and create a new language to replace said Javascript?
I think JavaScript gets many things right, but has an overly verbose syntax. So CoffeeScript hits a sweet spot by adding syntactic sugar while hewing close to the underlying language.
You and Alanis Morissette may call that ironic. I'd call it practical.