eta vs doT

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eta		doT
	Project
6	Mentions	1
2,589	Stars	4,987
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Haskell	Language	JavaScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

eta

Posts with mentions or reviews of eta. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-18.

Regarding Lenses, Prisms and Optics
4 projects | /r/javahelp | 18 Oct 2023

Or just go full on functional. There are several JVM based Haskell languages, e.g. Eta and Frege.
Is eta-lang dead?
1 project | /r/haskell | 19 Feb 2023
Any downsides to an exogenous type system vs integrated?
1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 17 Oct 2022

Facebook says that Flow is not a language, but just a type checker. Meanwhile TypeLead says Eta is a language. Both stances are purely arbitrary, and to me they're dialects of ECMAScript and Haskell respectively. In this sense, the difference between exogenous and "integrated" is purely one of terminology, and one on which people do not agree on.
Any News On Haskell For Android ?
4 projects | /r/haskell | 4 Jan 2022

I've heard of Eta (Haskell on JVM). It's supposed to work with Android. https://eta-lang.org
Writing the logic for IOS app in Haskell
4 projects | /r/haskell | 24 Nov 2021

I'll try to improve on my speculative and admittedly uneducated guess: https://www.codenameone.com/ (JVM on iOS) + https://eta-lang.org/ (Haskell on the JVM)
What is the correct way for integrating 2 programming languages in a desktop application?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 30 Jul 2021

Find a proper binding / way to run Haskell within Java / the JVM - it looks like there are some options, e.g. https://github.com/typelead/eta

doT

Posts with mentions or reviews of doT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-23.

Site.js: Small Web construction set
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2021

https://github.com/olado/doT is what they are talking about I think.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing eta and doT you can also consider the following projects:

EJS - Embedded JavaScript templates -- http://ejs.co

handlebars.js - Minimal templating on steroids.

squirrelly - Semi-embedded JS template engine that supports helpers, filters, partials, and template inheritance. 4KB minzipped, written in TypeScript ⛺

simplex-chat - SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!

mustache.js - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript

marko - A declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun

nunjucks - A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired)

Jade - Pug – robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for Node.js

astro-starter - Astro Launcher alternative written in Typescript/Deno