Interestingly, the original C++ compilers were like CoffeeScript in that they'd compile to C source code. Walter Bright (now of D fame) wrote the first C++ com

Interestingly, the original C++ compilers were like CoffeeScript in that they'd compile to C source code. Walter Bright (now of D fame) wrote the first C++ compiler that compiled to machine code. I don't really see this as the approach going forward though. There isn't much to gain from compiling to C++ code over C code.