I knew Python and Ruby before I started with CoffeeScript, so perhaps that colored my experience. CoffeeScript is basically a minimalized blend of js, Ruby, and

I knew Python and Ruby before I started with CoffeeScript, so perhaps that colored my experience. CoffeeScript is basically a minimalized blend of js, Ruby, and Python syntax-wise. But I still think someone who understands js will pretty much automatically get CoffeeScript concept-wise, at least to the level they get js concept-wise, because the central concepts of programming in CoffeeScript aren't different than js, just the syntax.