developer mindshare.

Check tag count for questions on SO; 4500 for CoffeeScript, 1500 for Dart.

Not to mention the violent revulsion many people (myself included) are expressing in this topic.

By that metric, GWT blows away CoffeeScript with ~15,000 questions on SO. Are you sure you want to use that metric?

Point was to compare compile-to-javascript languages.

Uh, GWT is a Java-to-JS compiler.

On that note, Java has 508,338 questions on StackOverflow, which crushes CoffeeScript, /especially/ with those 15,000 GWT questions ;)

Oh, interesting. Is it really a standalone transpiler or is it a set of tools?

As someone else pointed out, SO isn't a great metric, but finding github activity by language seemed to take more time than I was willing to invest.

No metric will be great right now because Dart is so new compared to CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript 1.0 was released 3 years ago. Give us a chance to get 1.0 out the door :)

That's not a very good metric. CoffeeScript is twice the age of Dart.

Fair point; I was trying to get github numbers and got sidetracked.

> Not to mention the violent revulsion many people (myself included) are expressing in this topic.

Immaturity seems like a good explanation of that effect

Not your best work.

I just let Occam do the dirty work for me sometimes.

Oh don't be so simple.

:P