The lack of visual clutter like brackets, semicolons, the var keyword, and the addition of significant whitespace are some of Coffeescript's strengths. Some ot

The lack of visual clutter like brackets, semicolons, the var keyword, and the addition of significant whitespace are some of Coffeescript's strengths. Some others are loop variable initialization, better hasOwnproperty checks, destructuring assignment, null soaking on objects, string interpolation, and array ranges. I've never found a good case for named functions over function expressions, other than maybe arbitrary order of source code. Even then, I usually put functions at the top of my files before they would be used in the script's execution. But to each their own. I don't use list comprehensions that often. I'd take CS over JS any day.