Tried it from Stuttgart. The speed increase is huge. Not sure if this is because of the location or the fact that NPM official servers are overloaded though.
this is great, reminds me of SilkJS, but seems to be much more capable. I wish it somehow emulated node.js apis (which shouldn't be a huge task I guess...) so we could use node modules.
I don't like it because it doesn't even support getters and setters and will definitely lag behind for too long after new features start to become more mainstream. Other people don't like it because of many other reasons.
The point is, the libraries and snippets of code written in CoffeeScript are advertised in various communities like S.O. and GitHub as if they are written in JavaScript.
This is arrogant and needs to stop.