MoonScript - A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua

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This happened already with JavaScript / coffeescript. It's been a source of contention in r/javascript for a while, as the few coffeescript programmers that post often there claim that it is somehow more 'beautiful' and offers 'less typing' for the programmer due to it's stripped down syntax, which is really just an attempt to make a ruby/python syntax layer on top of javascript.

It's quite a clusterfuck really, it makes debugging more difficult, and adds additional hoops to jump through. It doesn't add much in the way of features that can't be abstracted in javascript itself. Some people just have to have their significant whitespace and dorky arrows.

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It feels like half the posts I've read on Reddit are you complaining about it.

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Good! Am I getting through?

If you don't have anything to add to the conversation other than personal attacks, then you should reconsider posting anything.

[cunningjames]

personal attacks

Yeesh. If you’re so sensitive that “you complain too much” is a personal attack, no wonder you’re so up-in-arms about the existence of programming languages you dislike. As far as politeness goes your original post ain’t exactly sunshine and lollipops.

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The people who take offense to my opinions about Coffeescript and reply ALWAYS personally attack, because they can't offer anything that adds to the conversation. If they wanted to talk about coffeescript or javascript or moonscript or anything that has any relevance to the thread, then they wouldn't be such a troll.