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You take the "useless pedantic comment of the year" award.

Yeah, "it's a language". In bloody THEORY.

In reality it's also ONE, and only ONE, specific implementation widely used. In reality the language IS the compiler.

And that implementation compiles to JS, not as an implementation detail but as it's sole reason to exist.

Thanks for the award.

Yup, there's only one implementation. But doesn't in change? What will the compiled code be like in 3 years from now?

The compiled code's prupose is to be optimised, not consistent. This is my point.

By restricting yourself to think Javascript when you're coding in CoffeeScript, you're producing a code that sucks in JS and in CS.