I had a lot of niggles with CoffeeScript as well, which is why my compiles-to-JS language of choice is LiveScript[1]. It fixes basically all the annoyances and

I had a lot of niggles with CoffeeScript as well, which is why my compiles-to-JS language of choice is LiveScript[1]. It fixes basically all the annoyances and adds a lot of nice things on top of that. For exmaple, you can write more paren-free code with it and there are more kinds of useful function declarations (hushed functions, curried functions, backcalls). [1] http://livescript.net/ http://livescript.net/