Comment by chriserin

I love coffee script. With coffee script and backbone I've been able to take an extra step in creating manageable complexity on the client side. I was never the greatest javascript programmer, and coffeescript allows me to not worry about all the things that tripped me up (prototypical inheritance and all the different ways to implement classes/inheritance) and concentrate on the problems I'm trying to solve with a clear set of rules.

Coffeescript curates the good parts of javascript for you and adds the syntactic sugar that cleans up the gnarliness of javascript.