It's a language mimicking ruby, inspired by coffeescript, which is a language inspired by ruby. We've come full circle!
I always felt CoffeeScript was closer to Python then Ruby. But maybe its just the significant whitespace that stands out to me.
Yep, it has very close goals when compared to CoffeeScript. However for the most part RedScript ditched the "It's just Javacript" mantra. I also just wanted to learn Regular Expressions and Node so I thought I would make this to prototype an idea.
CoffeeScript was inspired by Python, Ruby, and Haskell.