Thanks for this Jeremy and everyone who contributed. I've held off really coming to grips with javascript because I found it ugly and full of too many gotchas. But Coffeescript has got rid of all those excuses!
Satoshi Murakami deserves a large portion of the credit for the changes leading up to 1.0 -- his Coco dialect of CoffeeScript has been a strong influence on the features and optimizations that happened this fall.
I thought I have a pretty good handle on CoffeeScript, but Coco's README confused me. Can someone explain the reasoning behind Coco's features? Can't seem to discern their purpose.
