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bsphil
There's some sort of joke in here about there not being a working form that I don't really care about getting.
dshaw7
Maybe if Mikeal wrote it in CoffeeScript, he could have written it easily enough to have a real form.
mchahn
Haters gotta hate. (I had to do this. I've never been down-voted before and I wonder what it feels like.)
bentruyman
I love mikeal's work and contributions to the node.js community — but I didn't care for this bit of satire. Some folks legitimately enjoy the experience of programming in CoffeeScript. I don't happen to be one of them. But I'm also not one to pass judgement on other programmers' choice of tools.

(EDIT: Although I do pass judgement silently.)

benatkin
Some people have been legitimately stuck using CoffeeScript because of rails or an employer or a client. These are among the people who will enjoy a lighthearted rant about CoffeeScript.
AaronLasseigne
While an employer or client might, RoR doesn't force you to use CoffeeScript.
sandfox
When did everyones sense of humour suddenly die? I literally can't get enough of CoffeeScript however I still think this is pretty funny, so the rest of you should be able to get over yourselves and laugh.
peterhellberg
This was indeed pretty funny :)

I prefer CoffeeScript over JavaScript, but I can definitely understand people who don’t.

jostsg
I dont get the joke. But what I really dont get is the "[..] JavaScript community would like to know[..]" part. Are we different communities now?

Why would one even care? It is like coding style. Use one or the other, just use the same on your team!

skilesare
CoffeeScript has made me 10x more efficient in writing web application client code. The debugging issue is minimal since there is a 1:1 relationship between your code and the js. If you can you 'find' you can debug. I've never written a line of Rails code.

In my opinion, if you are still writing straight javascript you are stealing from your client/company.