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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.




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