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by iends 1202 days ago
CoffeeScript solves the wrong problem. You never want to trade long term maintainability for writing code faster and more concisely. Maybe if you’re a solo developer and smarter than me there are benefits, but on a team, CoffeeScript was a detriment.

I spent years writing enterprise scale CoffeeScript with a sizable team and it was pretty rough. We converted to ES5 and now TypeScript (well mostly) and that solved a lot of our problems.