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The lack of keyword default arguments drives me nuts, python just does it so well. Not to mention ===, etc, etc.

None of these things are a showstoppers, but rather amount to "death by paper cut" that in my mind that make the language unsatisfying to use.

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You can just use CoffeScript for those little problems.

I've looked at it, and while nifty, makes me worry about leaky abstractions and future support.

Now that you mention it if I'm going to do that, why not use the python-to-javascript compiler from pyjamas? ... hmm.

The difference is that CF is very close to javascript and makes it very easy to transition. But of course, if you prefer python, why not :)

Talking about future support, as CF is included in Rails 3.1, I guess that it should be guaranteed enough.

I looked in to it. While technically possible it looks like you'll have to include a script to implement the python-like objects. That's a bit more than I wanted, just to write javascript in python syntax... so I guess it's not very practical.

"Not to mention ===, etc, etc."

In that context, I read "etc, etc" as a variant of the "etc" operator.

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