I was a big fan of coffescript, it was way better than what ES3 offered. I did a small startup where everything was coffee, frontend and node backend. The bigg

I was a big fan of coffescript, it was way better than what ES3 offered. I did a small startup where everything was coffee, frontend and node backend. The biggest issue was a little spacing between things would change meaning of program and things could go wrong. I lost some early customers because of reliability. That was a hard lesson and I learn the value of static typing. Typescript is way more verbose but the lesson is you’re writing code so other people can use and improve it. That could also be future you. Dropdown and squiggly driven development that vscode offers is unbeatable as dev experience. But coffeescript, like actionscript (Flash) has a special place in my heart. They were the big ideas back then. Thank you jashkenas.