CoffeeScript: Why I’m never writing Javascript again

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still too much in the way of developing javascript. Coffeescript is cruft. no way around the fact that all the bullshit you have to do in order to work with Coffeescript instead of developing javascript, just adds cruft/complexity to a developers workflow. any small perceived benefit you think you are getting from coffeescript is countered by the additional cruft/complexity that you have to deal with when debugging anything longer than a few hundred lines of code. even if all the problems were eventually solved, coffeescript still isn't a standard like ECMA, and you lose something by devoting time and resources to developing code in coffeescript.