Wow, the advice on Quora is really poor here. Here's the second highest response (in part):<p><i>6.TOP TECHNICAL CHOICE: Look at Javascript / Coffeescript. Why? Technology Trends: What are the most 'future friendly' web application frameworks to select in 2011? ... Javascript is easier to learn than Ruby or Python and runs on significantly more platforms that matter, ...</i><p>WTF? They're completely different kinds of language technologies with very different canonical uses. After spending a bit of time reading I'm convinced that most of the people there haven't actually written any code and only read PG's essays.
The more dramatic the move the worse it ends, he can very easily stay up an extra hour a night, cut some TV and learn. Looks to me like a basketball player opening a record label...just because some have become rich and famous with it.