Differences between TypeScript and Elm

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  • TypeScript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

    TypeScript's type system is not sound, by design. "A sound or 'provably correct' type system is not a goal of TypeScript."

  • purescript

    A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript

    Alternative to Elm can be PureScript, ClojureScript, ReasonML, ReScript, and other languages that compile to JavaScript. There are also newer and interesting languages that are still in an explorative state like Ren or Derw.

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  • elm-project-survey

    How do build times and asset sizes change as Elm projects grow larger?

    Elm compiler performance was measured after the release of version 0.19 that contained several performance improvements. The expected approximate times for 50,000 lines of Elm code are 3 seconds for a build from scratch and 0.4 seconds for an incremental build. The actual compile time for the incremental build is around 100 milliseconds. The other 300 milliseconds are used to write the output to a file.

  • rescript-compiler

    The compiler for ReScript.

    Alternative to Elm can be PureScript, ClojureScript, ReasonML, ReScript, and other languages that compile to JavaScript. There are also newer and interesting languages that are still in an explorative state like Ren or Derw.

  • reason

    Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems

    Alternative to Elm can be PureScript, ClojureScript, ReasonML, ReScript, and other languages that compile to JavaScript. There are also newer and interesting languages that are still in an explorative state like Ren or Derw.

  • coffeescript

    Unfancy JavaScript

    Alternative to Elm can be PureScript, ClojureScript, ReasonML, ReScript, and other languages that compile to JavaScript. There are also newer and interesting languages that are still in an explorative state like Ren or Derw.

  • Hegel

    An advanced static type checker

    An alternative to TypeScript can be Flow, a library maintained by Facebook. Flow, similarly to TypeScript, is not a sound type system. "Flow tries to be as sound and complete as possible. But because JavaScript was not designed around a type system, Flow sometimes has to make a tradeoff". Another alternative is Hegel, a type system that "attempts" to be sound. It is unclear to me if the attempt succeeded or not but it is worth checking.

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