[lucian303]

"Third Hand" languages ... for young teenagers who have nothing better to do and can't hack the real thing or think they are developing something useful. Been there, done that.

[ojr]

Javascript was made to be a target language ... Brendan Eich is a supporter of the BYOJ ( Build Your Own Javascript) movement

[lucian303]

That's because he knows how much his JS sucks as a language to program into.

[ToastOpt]

Which is a good thing, because just about every language sucks, but some languages realize it less than others. :-)

[BrendanEich]

Zing!

Yes, JS sucks. It's also getting less sucky, because it won't go away. Kind of obvious at this point.

[kamkha]

If you think CoffeeScript is solely for "young teenagers who have nothing better to do," your arrogance is obviously clouding your vision.

[lucian303]

You mean my experience writing such systems. Also my experience developing in JS. I quite dislike the language myself, but I'm not going to write in whatever happens to be the metalanguage in style. I'd rather spend my extra time learning a real language that can do what I can't do currently. Not one that does exactly the same thing.

[jonbeebe]

It's a really great day in age to be a teenager then. :-)