[gnw]

Great pointers, setup scripts and automating project chores are essential for creating a good workflow, saving time, and saving colleagues some hair when they get started with the app.

I've tried coffeescript but it didn't catch on with me. Perhaps I didn't give it enough time, but I got the feeling that it could get quite semantically ambiguous at times whereas if you stick to JS' native C-style form, the structure of the code is imperative and easy to follow. I also felt uneasy about what code was actually executing at the other end of the transpiler.

[latchkey]

a) You can always see the source output and it is easily readable. b) CS really doesn't do anything magic in the output.

Give it more time, the gains for CS are worth any negatives you can conjure up. do ->, classes, simple for loops, equality, etc.