If you realize you don’t like JavaScript as much as everybody around you seems to, but still want to write platform-independent KWin scripts or effects, you can try out its most promising alternative - CoffeeScript

The code below creates a KWin effect that fades and zooms in the windows when a user switches the activities.

Edit: Fixed a small bug. Now it works quite well!

# Martin G. likes defining variables in a namespace,
# so we are not going to make him angry -
# we are creating a namespace that has only one
# variable in it - the duration

activitySwitchEffect =
    duration: animationTime(250)

# We don't really need anything else in the namespace
# for this simple example since we are about to abuse
# lambdas (aka anonymous functions) all over the place.

# We are connecting our function to the
# currentActivityChanged signal, and processing
# all the main windows we can find

effects.currentActivityChanged.connect (activity) ->
    effects.stackingOrder.map (client) ->
        if (activity in client.activities && client.visible)

            # If the client should be shown in
            # the current activity, we are starting
            # the animations - one to fade the window in
            # and another to scale it.

            animate(
                window: client
                animations: [
                    type:     Effect.Opacity
                    duration: activitySwitchEffect.duration
                    from:     0
                    to:       1
                ]
            )

            animate(
                window: client
                animations: [
                    type:     Effect.Scale
                    duration: activitySwitchEffect.duration
                    curve:    QEasingCurve.OutCubic
                    from:     0
                ]
            )

# And that's it!

Mind that this is only for demonstration - it has a few bugs in it :)