People who don't know javascript.

It would have been great if he had mentioned IcedCoffeeScript at some point too. Coffeescript by itself is 'ok' but IcedCoffeScript - at least on the serverside - is fantastic.

Indeed! I have much respect for Max and company. We use and love Streamline.js ourselves -- works great with CoffeeScript.

https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs

I'd love to talk on or write about Streamline at some point too.

I disagree. 1. Coffeescript is far from ugly, and also not particularly similar to Ruby :p 2. Typescript includes types and brackets. Coffeescript does not. 3. Icedcoffescript includes async/defer keywords. I include this last point only as a result of a personal perspective that if you're going to use coffeescript, you might as well use icedcoffeescript.

I'm sorry, I'm not a Ruby developer and hope never would :) From my prospect - all languages, which has no brackets are ugly and simular to ruby.

Btw, based on typescript discussions, they are going to implement async/await functionality too.

It's all what you're used to reading. If all you've been staring at are various curly-brace languages then of course you're going to prefer that.

I was primarily a curly-brace developer for 10 years, but changed my mind after a few years of Python, Ruby and Lua. Now I actually think these languages look better than the curly-brace family.

For me, the stereotypical CoffeeScript experience applies: Easy to write, hard to read.

async/await is on their roadmap, though I'd estimate about a year before it'll be in a stable version (I wouldn't be surprised if it'll be available on a feature branch much sooner, but with lower expectation of stability).