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#Why I Don't Use CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript in of itself, and not as a transpiled language, is slick. The problem for me is what it's supposedly "fixing".

##Syntax Sugar

For a Rails and Python developer JS is ugly (as I hear). You have... dun dun dun, curly brackets and white space doesn't mean anything (oh the humanity!). But, I like my whitespace. I like not being restricted on how I write my code aesthetically. Not to mention CoffeeScript is by far less human readable than JavaScript. Programming languages, IMO, need to be a good balance of both human and machine readable. Simple example:

cube = (x) -&gt; square(x) * x

	/** @jsx React.DOM */
	function makeStubbedDescriptor(component, props, contextStubs) {
	var TestWrapper = React.createClass({
	childContextTypes: {
	currentPath: React.PropTypes.string,
	makePath: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,
	makeHref: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,
	transitionTo: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,
	replaceWith: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,
	goBack: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,

	function clone(object) {
	var cloned = Object.create(object.prototype \|\| null);
	Object.keys(object).map(function (i) {
	cloned[i] = object[i];
	});

	return cloned;
	}

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>JS Bin</title>
	<style>
	</style>
	</head>
	<body>
	<p id="sending">Sending mail...</p>
	<script class="jsbin" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>