It's interesting to me how many people can look at the exact same thing and have completely different experiences and takeaways. I suggest that this is largely

It's interesting to me how many people can look at the exact same thing and have completely different experiences and takeaways. I suggest that this is largely determined by things like the person's previous experiences, maybe even their group or personal identity, etc. and various factors that are not necessarily objective. For me, I strongly feel that using async/await consistently instead of a promise chain style can clean up a codebase quite a lot. I also feel that whitespace significant syntaxes are (to me) obviously cleaner. So for a year or two at least I used things like CoffeeScript or even ToffeeScript. But I got tired of feeling like I was swimming upstream. I also did a solo project with significant usage of LiveScript a few years ago. Which I think is a very nice language.