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Javascript was made to be a target language ... Brendan Eich is a supporter of the BYOJ ( Build Your Own Javascript) movement

That's because he knows how much his JS sucks as a language to program into.

Which is a good thing, because just about every language sucks, but some languages realize it less than others. :-)

Zing!

Yes, JS sucks. It's also getting less sucky, because it won't go away. Kind of obvious at this point.

If you think CoffeeScript is solely for "young teenagers who have nothing better to do," your arrogance is obviously clouding your vision.

You mean my experience writing such systems. Also my experience developing in JS. I quite dislike the language myself, but I'm not going to write in whatever happens to be the metalanguage in style. I'd rather spend my extra time learning a real language that can do what I can't do currently. Not one that does exactly the same thing.

It's a really great day in age to be a teenager then. :-)