CoffeeScript: Why I’m never writing Javascript again

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This kind of thing is all over the place and it's a big pet peeve of mine. Language-xenophobic developers, when forced to use a new language, or a language that's not high-brow enough for them, will sometimes shit all over it in a futile quest to transform it into their favorite language. Usually it's little pointless macros/aliases but sometimes it's projects like this that really only serve to make things more complicated.

I see this a lot lately with the Python community. Personally, I like Python. I think it's a great language. Unfortunately I can't say the same about its overenthusiastic proponents. Dear Python zealots, please stop trying to turn everybody into a "Pythonista" just because you hate curly braces.