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> Nim is very attractive to a previous CoffeeScript user like me

Is modern JS attractive to you as a previous CoffeeScript user? A think a lot of why CoffeeScript died is that they brought the big features into JS.

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Not much, I would say. Something important in CoffeeScript is "everything is an expression". That was a feature in Lisps, in Haskell, in Rust, but would never be default behavior for JavaScript. JavaScript is becoming less odd with modern features, but still far from being liked.

a bad aspect of CoffeeScript I see is "it's not an industry language". too flexible, insufficient integrations with standard tools, slow fixes and new features. The industry definitely need as lot of features for pushing and also controlling work.

CoffeeScript's syntax make a lot more sense than ES6, and CoffeeScript 2 compiles down to ES6 primitives. It's a shame that it's usage is pretty low in the industry.

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