I have know one or two people that dismissed CoffeeScript after fiddling with it for a while; but they were people who didn't have previous experience with Java

I have know one or two people that dismissed CoffeeScript after fiddling with it for a while; but they were people who didn't have previous experience with JavaScript, and i suspect that might be part of the reason. The people i've known who most embraced CS were people who have had their deal of JS experience, who knew many of JS quirks and its workarounds, like doing "var self = this", or how to use closure visibility to avoid the need for global variables, or even how to up a prototype chain to implement some basic inheritance. Personally, i know that whenever i have to code in JS for whatever reason and need to do some of those things, i miss CS :)