I really don't understand how coffeescript is cleaner or easier to understand. To me the syntax is much more confusing and ambiguous and takes more time to understand where things go... or just to hunt down the little comma responsible for delineating two arguments. When the code you're looking at is large and complex it's even worse. And just because we don't like typing "var" or using curly braces? That is seriously what we're calling bloat?

I was originally very intrigued by it, and used it heavily in one of my projects, but after working with it for a year I went back to JS for the next project. I still want something better than JS but coffeescript definitely isn't the answer.