This is by far my favorite feature of Coffeescript, and it makes me sad not to have it in other languages.
There was an attempt at including it into EcmaScript, and an interesting discussion about the merits and the difficulties of implementing the operator, here: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/the-existential-operator
There was an attempt at including it into EcmaScript, and an interesting discussion about the merits and the difficulties of implementing the operator, here: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/the-existential-operator