To better understand how different ClojureScript is from CoffeeScript, read the last paragraph on the ClojureScript wiki's Rationale page: https://github.com/cl

To better understand how different ClojureScript is from CoffeeScript, read the last paragraph on the ClojureScript wiki's Rationale page: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Rationale https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Rationale It's purpose is not to compile down to vanilla, readable JavaScript, but rather to make it easy to write production-ready JavaScript applications that can easily leverage the "advanced mode" of the Google Closure compiler.