I can live without semantic auto-complete, dabbrev works well enough for most simple cases. It's lack of syntax highlighting and signalling parse errors that bo

I can live without semantic auto-complete, dabbrev works well enough for most simple cases. It's lack of syntax highlighting and signalling parse errors that bother me. Macros in Racket are as awesome as they are because they are deeply integrated with DrRacket. Having s-exps based syntax helps, but that's not a prerequisite - DrRacket handles #langs which are not based on sexps too. It's one of Racket's goals to let you create your own language and make it work with syntax-highlighting and auto-completion (and more) automatically. That's what makes Racket absolutely awesome for experimenting with languages. Sweet.js is young and it's possible it will get editor support with plugins later. For now, however, the lack of such support makes the experience worse than CoffeeScript or LiveScript or ClojureScript. Which is a shame, because extensibility granted by powerful macro system is very desirable in JS and would render many of compile-to-JS languages redundant, while allowing better composability. In short I like sweet.js idea very much, I played with it a bit, but I unfortunately will have to wait for better tooling before using it in production.