> [...] how often people who want nothing in the world to do with CoffeeScript, 
    > people like me, end up having to deal with it for some reason. Like I 
    > don't like ada, and I never have to look at it. ada never ends up in 
    > my editor or on a github page I'm looking at, but frequently someone 
    > puts CoffeeScript somewhere where someone was expecting JavaScript, 
    > like a StackOverflow answer, or a package for Meteor, or something. 
    > If CoffeeScript stayed out of my life, and I out of it, I would probably 
    > hate it a lot less.

As the creator of CoffeeScript — I think your answer here is right on the money. It's a pretty perfect answer to joeblau's question.