He makes a great point in favor of CoffeeScript: making your JavaScript look nice takes much more work without CS. The fact that he is lining up the multi-line

He makes a great point in favor of CoffeeScript: making your JavaScript look nice takes much more work without CS. The fact that he is lining up the multi-line string line breaks says loads about how CS will more easily make your JavaScript look good. How many times have you tried to line up your equals signs or colons only to then later add a longer key or var name that required you to further tab over your = or : to keep things lined up. But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt vanity is the primary reason people are using CS. My number one favorite feature is the list comprehension, and if it didn't have that, I might not be bothering with it.