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Agreed, CoffeeScript is much more extensive, and in most cases (from what I can see) prettier. Kaffeine piping seems cute though. Maybe the author could join forces with the CoffeeScript project?

Note on CoffeeScript: it took me _one_ .coffee script to get used to the syntax, and I'm never ever gonna write vanilla JS again if possible.

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weepy is actually a contributor to CoffeeScript from the early days. Kaffeine represents his take on what a little language that targets JS should look like.

I've often wondered what 'little' in the CoffeeScript tag line meant ? Do you mean that it's terse ?

Don't think that CoffeeScript is much more extensive - Kaffeine has most of the features. Other advantage is that the output Javascript is very similar to the input, unlike Coffee where there's various implied closures and magic T_T

I like the fact that CoffeeScript does some magic for me. I know exactly 'what' the magic does, and I don't mind CoffeeScript taking care of it for me.

Ruby dev eh? ;)

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