But whatever he is after have to be much more lucrative than writing coffeescript.
Apart from pleasant syntax, coffeescript also improves upon semantics where it can - this binding, lexical scoping etc etc. People are willing to adopt Coffeescript because it compiles to javascript, it has improved semantics and clean & mostly familiar syntax.
To sum it up, the inertia is small when moving from JS to cofffeescript. That doesn't look like the case with funode.
Apart from pleasant syntax, coffeescript also improves upon semantics where it can - this binding, lexical scoping etc etc. People are willing to adopt Coffeescript because it compiles to javascript, it has improved semantics and clean & mostly familiar syntax.
To sum it up, the inertia is small when moving from JS to cofffeescript. That doesn't look like the case with funode.