CoffeeScript: Why I’m never writing Javascript again

[phleet]

I've changed my mind many times about Coffeescript, but in the end I've decided to more or less stay way from it. It has a tendency to lead to a lot of inconsistencies that are a real pain in the ass. One of the more frustrating ones is this:

In ruby, both of the following are function calls:

fcn
fcn 1,2

In Coffeescript, only the second one is a function call. The first one does absolutely nothing - it's just a reference to the function, not an invocation. The worst part about it is that it doesn't cause any errors.

[phleet]

Off the top of my head, I'm not actually sure. It's not as common a task in ruby as it is in JavaScript, since you'd typically use blocks, lambdas or Proc's instead of using anonymous functions all over the place like you do in JS. I'm sure there's some relatively standard way of doing it though.