I'm certainly all for choice in development tools and I understand that there are people who like each of these languages. I think it is great that people are experimenting with all these extensions to JavaScript, both because they can inform the future of JavaScript or its successor and because eventually someone will come up with the right mix of features/changes to really supplant JavaScript.
That being said, for the reasons I spelled out I think the current crop of options are really lacking. I get that developers are going to use whatever tool they have to get what they need done, but I don't see why we shouldn't provide them great tools to do their work in.
I'm interested in a source for your statement that "Crockford loves Coffeescript". What I found was http://zhan.renren.com/h5/entry/3602888497994246013 which while very favorable sounds more like my statement that it is good things like this are happening. He concludes "I'm not sure there's enough of a payoff there. But just as an experiment, as a design exercise, I think it's a brilliant piece of work."
That being said, for the reasons I spelled out I think the current crop of options are really lacking. I get that developers are going to use whatever tool they have to get what they need done, but I don't see why we shouldn't provide them great tools to do their work in.
I'm interested in a source for your statement that "Crockford loves Coffeescript". What I found was http://zhan.renren.com/h5/entry/3602888497994246013 which while very favorable sounds more like my statement that it is good things like this are happening. He concludes "I'm not sure there's enough of a payoff there. But just as an experiment, as a design exercise, I think it's a brilliant piece of work."