CoffeeScript has made me 10x more efficient in writing web application client code. The debugging issue is minimal since there is a 1:1 relationship between your code and the js. If you can you 'find' you can debug. I've never written a line of Rails code.

In my opinion, if you are still writing straight javascript you are stealing from your client/company.

I dont get the joke. But what I really dont get is the "[..] JavaScript community would like to know[..]" part. Are we different communities now?

Why would one even care? It is like coding style. Use one or the other, just use the same on your team!

I love mikeal's work and contributions to the node.js community — but I didn't care for this bit of satire. Some folks legitimately enjoy the experience of programming in CoffeeScript. I don't happen to be one of them. But I'm also not one to pass judgement on other programmers' choice of tools.

(EDIT: Although I do pass judgement silently.)

Some people have been legitimately stuck using CoffeeScript because of rails or an employer or a client. These are among the people who will enjoy a lighthearted rant about CoffeeScript.

While an employer or client might, RoR doesn't force you to use CoffeeScript.

Haters gotta hate. (I had to do this. I've never been down-voted before and I wonder what it feels like.)

it's not that thrilling.

There's some sort of joke in here about there not being a working form that I don't really care about getting.

Maybe if Mikeal wrote it in CoffeeScript, he could have written it easily enough to have a real form.

When did everyones sense of humour suddenly die? I literally can't get enough of CoffeeScript however I still think this is pretty funny, so the rest of you should be able to get over yourselves and laugh.

This was indeed pretty funny :)

I prefer CoffeeScript over JavaScript, but I can definitely understand people who don’t.