Yes, CoffeeScript is chaos. I've found that CS's biggest proponents can be heard to say "Let's just replace it with a custom thing I'll build this weekend" much

Yes, CoffeeScript is chaos. I've found that CS's biggest proponents can be heard to say "Let's just replace it with a custom thing I'll build this weekend" much more frequently than normal. Surely this is coincidental. ;) The old joke was that Perl is a write-only language, and CoffeeScript et al are essentially thought experiments for how deep into the write-only abyss people are willing to plunge as a non-joke. It's no mystery that CS primarily attracts people who heavily discount the importance of long-term maintainability. The core issue seems to be that some people have conflated prescience with elegance. We must stop deluding ourselves into pretending there are languages that can read our minds. Put your intent in the code, avoid ambiguity. If the answer is not obvious and consistent, do not rely on either the computer or the human to extract your intent from the ether.