Is it unwise to start a large, new project with CoffeeScript?

1 points by rudolf0 ↗ HN
I know it's grown out of fashion, but I still really like CoffeeScript. ECMA 6 is great at all, but ECMA 6 + CoffeeScript seems even better. I'm sick of braces and semicolons if I don't need them.

I avoid the more syntactically ambiguous parts and try to use sensible whitespace.

Would it a bad idea to embark on a new, large project using 100% CoffeeScript instead of Javascript? Are there any other JS transpilers with a Python/Ruby-ish syntax that would be recommended over it? Should I stop caring so much about syntax sugar?

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If you're the only developer, do what you want. If not, don't do what you want but what is best for the project. Which probably isn't what you want. ;-)
I'd be the sole developer for some time, but there may be many more developers after a few months.