Along the same lines, use the right language for the abstraction you are dealing with. In a server environment, I prefer to have modular services linked togethe

Along the same lines, use the right language for the abstraction you are dealing with. In a server environment, I prefer to have modular services linked together with some message queue. In web projects, this is what has kept me coming back to CoffeeScript: we found it less distracting visually, given the kind of code we were writing (heavy call-back oriented, lots of chained methods).