[tieTYT]

Nice answer. I've gone from Java->Haskell->Clojure->CoffeeScript. I was never fluent in Haskell->Clojure but I could get around.

But being completely familiar with Java, CoffeeScript/JavaScript feels nice. I really like underscore.js. When googling for why people don't like JavaScript, it seems that CoffeeScript has already fixed all those problems.

[catnaroek]

So people only care about syntax? No wonder there is so much buggy software out there.

[tieTYT]

I can only guess you're reacting to me saying, "I like JavaScript because it lets me type less". Unfortunately, I didn't say that.