Does anyone else prefer the syntax of javascript to that of coffee script? Really, my only problems with javascript are no multi-line strings and type coercion (but type coercion issues are mitigated by always using ===). Otherwise, I think javascript is a fine language. Also, the with statement isn't that bad in my opinion.
I'm with you on that one. The only thing I feel that really needs improvement in javascript is the long-winded lambda syntax, seeing as they're used so much. Everything else I'm perfectly fine with. Honestly, most of what coffeescript brings is fewer keystrokes, at the cost of ambiguity. I don't see the purpose.
And I'm sorry, but whitespace-for-blocks really kills it for me. I can't stand it in python, but I'll suffer through it for the ecosystem. Coffeescript brings nothing to the table for me.
Significant whitespace is a big turn off for me too. What you gain in concision for small examples you more than lose in tooling and code manipulation.
I used the think the exact same thing. However, after spending some time with tools that do consider white space significant (coffeescript, haml, sass) I have come to prefer it. It's part noise reduction and part consistency between devs and environments that I prefer.
Because you can't automatically re-indent code. In a language like C or Javascript, I can just copy, paste and move chunks of code around and have pristine re-indentation with a keypress. In Haskell, Python, or Coffeescript I have to be very careful and have to manually re-indent if I want to move code or change scopes.
Whitespace is much better left as a purely aesthetic feature, IMO.
