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Because it's a modern and usable version of one of the most ubiquitous language of the modern web era (and happens to actually produces that language as an output, making it seamless to integrate)?



Coffee-script is just synthetic sugar with some build in constructors for syntax elitist like rubyist or pythonistas, it not any different than using plain js. It does not save you for the quirks of js or give you any "improvement" beyond the syntax. Is a nice language, but don't put i like is something more of what it is.




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