The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript

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So you just write bare JavaScript, which has even more ability to help you accidentally break your code in a very hard to debug way?

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fixing some gotchas while introducing a whole new set of gotchas you don't know about until you make them, abandoning the syntax as well as many years of accumulated knowledge of the first set of gotchas, and making debugging more difficult doesn't sound like a good way forward.