[calibraxis]

I personally happen to disagree. (I have production/team experience with both node.js and CoffeeScript.)

For many learning types, I'd guess it's preferable to leisurely learn JavaScript from the shores of CoffeeScript. Rather than having to deal with all of JavaScript's absurdity at once.

And when you need to read someone else's JavaScript code, you can usually get away with ignoring boilerplate.