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I'm guessing that the only reason CoffeeScript embraces Javascript is for debugging.

I wonder whether CoffeeScript embraces JavaScript is because its author, jashkenas, likes JavaScript’s semantics. he has created several extremely useful JavaScript tools and has described JavaScript using words like “gorgeous."

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I'd call this interpretation indisputable unless I saw jashkenas himself disputing it. In many ways, CoffeeScript is just JavaScript, minus a whole ton of redundant key-tapping.

I have yet to find myself in a situation after 15 years of programming when the primary problem was "redundant key-tapping".

The more languages I learn, the less I care about syntax and the more I care about being able to express solutions to problems. In that respect, then, CoffeeScript has been no help to me whatsoever, since semantically, it's no different than JavaScript.

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