When you directly compare coffeescript to JS and looking at more or less the same code (but of course it's very unfair to JS to use coffee compiler output inste

When you directly compare coffeescript to JS and looking at more or less the same code (but of course it's very unfair to JS to use coffee compiler output instead of hand written JS), you won't find much of a difference aside of the small syntax changes. But once you are used to coffee, your code will start to look very different from pure JS code. Coffe encourages you to write even more, even smaller functions due to its lean syntax. This new coding style that emerges (at least it began to emerge for me and a coworker) is infinitely more readable than JS, even more so when you look at a direct translation. My takeaway from this is two things: 1) coffee is cool. Just give yourself one time to adapt. At first everyone's code in $NEWLANGUAGE looks like code in $OLDLANGUAGE until you get used to the common idioms in your new language. 2) The general syntax of a language can have a huge effect on your code style which in turn can have a huge effect on overall readability.