"taken most seriously by those JavaScript programmers who have absolutely no experience whatsoever" You mean like those at Google (dart), Microsoft (typescript

"taken most seriously by those JavaScript programmers who have absolutely no experience whatsoever" You mean like those at Google (dart), Microsoft (typescript), Mozilla (asm.js) and the developers of dozens of other languages that compile to javascript, I guess: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...