To be fair, back in the day, both Java and C# were intended to be C++-ish. Javascript itself was famously remodelled to be Java-ish. When Coffeescript came ou

To be fair, back in the day, both Java and C# were intended to be C++-ish. Javascript itself was famously remodelled to be Java-ish. When Coffeescript came out, it intentionally modelled itself after the brevity of Python. There are lots of Lisp derivatives and Forth-likes (Forth-like is even a pretty established term). ML derivatives are popular. I don't think it's just Python. Edit: Of course I should have read TFA before replying. Of course this is not a Python like language, but a language that compiles to Python. I agree the cute name is confusing, but if the point is to compile to a specific language, saying what that language is is pretty important ;-)