purescript
A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript (by purescript)
coffeescript
Unfancy JavaScript (by jashkenas)
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| purescript | coffeescript | |
|---|---|---|
| 52 | 54 | |
| 8,458 | 16,434 | |
| 0.5% | - | |
| 6.6 | 3.0 | |
| 10 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Haskell | CoffeeScript | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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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.
purescript
Posts with mentions or reviews of purescript.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-29.
- Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from React (2019)
- Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?
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Building React Components Using Unions in TypeScript
Naturally I’d recommend using a better language such as ReScript or Elm or PureScript or F#‘s Fable + Elmish, but “React” is the king right now and people perceive TypeScript as “less risky” for jobs/hiring, so here we are.
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Is there a better way to do read-only types
Unless you want to switch to https://www.purescript.org/.
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Why I'm Leaving Elm
PureScript[1][2] seems pretty alive these days. From my relatively small, self-contained experiments, it's a lot more flexible and expressive than Elm at the expense of (maybe?) being a bit harder to learn up-front.
[1]: https://www.purescript.org/
[2]:https://github.com/purescript/purescript
- (strongly typed) functional language compilers running in browser
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purescript VS purs-eval - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 2 Mar 2023
- Por que Elm é uma linguagem tão deliciosa?
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I will die on this hill (curve)
*cough* I mean Purescript.
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My main beef with Haskell/JS
Assuming this is a PS knock, fwiw this went away a good bit ago: https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases/tag/v0.14.2
coffeescript
Posts with mentions or reviews of coffeescript.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-10.
- CoffeeScript
- Ask HN: Why don't browsers just build a non-JS interpreter?
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alternatives to the javascript ecosystem
That said, there are ways to embrace the JS ecosystem without actually using JavaScript. Many popular languages have transpilers that will convert code written in that particular language into something that will run natively in a web browser (in other words, JavaScript). Even TypeScript is a language that gets transpiled into JavaScript, so it's not that outrageous of a concept, it just gets more difficult to do the further you get away from languages that don't already look like JavaScript.
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Vanilla+PostCSS as an Alternative to SCSS
As a front-end web developer, do you still use CoffeeScript or jQuery? Unlikely, as TypeScript, ES/TC39 and Babel (and the retirement of Internet Explorer thanks to @codepo8 and his EDGE team) have helped to transform JavaScript into some kind of a modern programming language.
- Por que Elm é uma linguagem tão deliciosa?
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An Introduction for TypeScript
CoffeeScript
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Why React isn't dying
On the other hand, companies choose React because that's where all the developers are. If you want to build something that can be maintained years from now, you better not choose the next hype train that goes straight to nowhere (remember CoffeeScript ?). You want something battle tested that has stood the test of time, where you won't have trouble finding developers to scale once you need to. And nobody ever got fired for choosing React.
- List of languages that compile to JavaScript
- We're breaking up with JavaScript front ends
- Suggestion for coding project
What are some alternatives?
When comparing purescript and coffeescript you can also consider the following projects:
fp-ts - Functional programming in TypeScript
Elm - Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.
reason - Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems
emacs-ng - A new approach to Emacs - Including TypeScript, Threading, Async I/O, and WebRender.
elm-reactor
imba - 🐤 The friendly full-stack language
servant - Main repository for the servant libraries — DSL for describing, serving, querying, mocking, documenting web applications and more!
rescript-compiler - The compiler for ReScript.
Vue.js - This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core
Idris2 - A purely functional programming language with first class types
Lua - Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.