Quote: "Having defected from Rails, I love CoffeeScript." This is a common reason I've heard. Here's the bottom line, CoffeeScript is not javascript. Suppose

Quote: "Having defected from Rails, I love CoffeeScript." This is a common reason I've heard. Here's the bottom line, CoffeeScript is not javascript. Suppose you want to speak Japanese but only know English. Google comes out with Translate 4.0 that does realtime translation on the fly. Great! Now you can speak Japanese, right? No. Most of the devs I've personally interacted with that like Coffeescript are conversely bad at javascript. Admittedly this is anecdotal and only based on my personal experiences. Learn javascript. Get a book, read some tutorials. Quit trying to squirm around just because closures make you nervous.