Depends on the context, but FWIW, CoffeeScript has an explicit design goal of producing human-readable output (even though it's just JS to run in the browser) s

Depends on the context, but FWIW, CoffeeScript has an explicit design goal of producing human-readable output (even though it's just JS to run in the browser) so that people learning the language can try out examples and build intuition and trust in what JS is going to be produced. It also helps when using a debugger without source maps.