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I fail to see a point! JavaScript alternatives that each of it ultimately boils down to JavaScript. Why not just write JavaScript which looks like JavaScript and behaves like JavaScript?

May be we shouldn't call them 'alternatives' but just 'wrappers' - JavaScript Wrappers. But again, that's not the point. Why?

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You could apply that to C and assembler. I remember back in the late 80s to early 90s is was not uncommon for developers to write code in raw asm presumably because C didn't give them the "power" they needed.

I think that perhaps JS has not yet reached the point that asm has.

I don't know about the alternatives, but CoffeeScript often expands to twice the lines of code to JavaScript, without comments and longer lines.

Not having to track braces, optional parenthesis, not having to type 'function' and others quickly add up. The result is very elegant and clean code. Having less code also means its quicker to identify bugs.

Ok, I see your point and @jiggy2011's, too. But I still love JavaScript as it is :)

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