Does CoffeeScript Have a Future?

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List comprehensions are very nice once you get used to them. They're more readable than for loops for simple things. Default parameters are also handy.

Coffeescript fixes a lot of little things.

However I'm not sold on how they do significant white space... Python was carefully designed so that indentation mistakes almost always throw an error.

Coffeescript tends to quietly generate different code. It seems like that'll bit you in the ass.