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    delayed: () ->
      -> this.model  # isn't the class

Well, that isn't really fair now, is it? You could have used the fat arrow (`=>`) for binding `this` to the class.

With that in mind, I agree with the author in that CoffeeScript isn't the answer, at least not exactly. With syntax this incredibly similar, how far are we from compiling python (with generators, with statements, imports, ...) to JavaScript?

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>how far are we from compiling python

I frankly find CoffeeScript nicer than Python. There are advantages and disadvantages, obviously, but whenever I'm writing Python, it makes me long for CoffeeScript.

Going from CoffeeScript to Python (bundled together with going from Node.js to Python) is painful. So many things that CoffeeScript has learned over Python - of all of them, "everything is an expression" rule.

CoffeeScript is more readable than Python.

If you really get familiar with CoffeeScript then you will see that the benefits add up over JavaScript.

If you want a nice Python-like language with import statements and many interesting features that compiles to JavaScript, take a look at Nimrod.

There are a few projects, this is one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyjamas_(software)

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