[jashkenas]

There are many other compile-to-JS languages that might be more to your liking. Perhaps try Objective-J? It's a strict superset of JavaScript.

http://altjs.org/

[cageface]

I already curse Objective-C for its verbosity, so that's not the right direction for me. Coffeescript is in the right ballpark, I'd just rather have a more explicitly structured syntax, perhaps closer to Ruby.