Iced Coffeescript is brilliant! I think it is the closest you can get right now to sane development with callback-oriented code in Javascript. Unfortunately it

Iced Coffeescript is brilliant! I think it is the closest you can get right now to sane development with callback-oriented code in Javascript. Unfortunately it doens't solve the exception problem yet. Exceptions passed to callbacks (as `(err, value)`) are not thrown. So instead of try/catch there will be lots of `return cb(err) if err` in your code.