I disagree. Basically he says he loves Backbone and CoffeeScript because they remove the headaches of Javascript and "chatty web-apps", but doesn't get any farther than that, instead plugging his company's training class.

What a horrible title for an article! The first time someone used ... X is dead, long live X ... it had meaning. It is completely cliche now.

Blah blah... coffeescript. Web development fashion is a giant echo chamber.