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I've been using coffeescript a fair amount recently, and I like it. In a conversation with a friend recently, he asserted that coffeescript is good for showcasing a set of toy examples (see link), but when it came down to writing actual code, most of the features were useless. (Heavily paraphrasing here).

I agree with him that many of the examples of coffeescript on the website are oversimplified and don't show off the practical benefits of coffeescript, so I put together these code samples from a project that I've recently converted from javascript to coffeescript. They're not as pithy or neat looking as the samples on the coffeescript website, but I think they do a better job of showing the practical benefits.