I'd definitely recommend giving it another try. I'm generally very skeptical about adding another layer of abstraction into my toolchain, but I've found the ben

I'd definitely recommend giving it another try. I'm generally very skeptical about adding another layer of abstraction into my toolchain, but I've found the benefits far outweigh the cost. Syntactic sugar like '@' aside, I've found that working in CoffeeScript enables me to write code that's far clearer and more expressive than when I'm working in vanilla JS.