I used to agree with you about writing in the language you are targeting, really strongly agreed. Coffeescript, for example, was something I never took seriousl

I used to agree with you about writing in the language you are targeting, really strongly agreed. Coffeescript, for example, was something I never took seriously. Clojurescript, and core.async in particular, changed my mind. It has converted me completely. The debugging issue is much less of an issue than I expected, since other methods of problem solving make more sense in a clojure context than breakpoint style line by line debugging. Of course sometimes you do need to drop to that level, and it is a bit of a learning curve to debug the generated js, even with the great source maps, but it's not that bad. Overall I am still more productive by a big margin, and it's more enjoyable.