[dagw]

As someone who used to be a big CoffeeScript advocate, I agree that adopting CoffeeScript over modern JavaScript isn't worth it. However adopting CoffeeScript when it came out over what JavaScript looked like at the time was a much bigger win.

That being said, as much as I liked using CoffeeScript in my own personal projects, adopting it for a non-trivial project at work probably turned out to be a net mistake all things considered. The only positive was that the .js output files where clean any easy enough to work with that we could quite easily just drop CoffeeScript and continue developing directly with those .js file