Ask HN: Uncommon Web Languages?

• imba

  45 6,230 9.5 JavaScript

  🐤 The friendly full-stack language

  

Recently I have been a huge fan of

1. Imba (https://imba.io/)

• haxeui-core

  3 331 9.7 Haxe

  The core library of the HaxeUI framework

  

Haxe Lang has some really nice UI frameworks including HaxeUI[1] and CoconutUI[2] which can both compile for the web using the javascript target. You get AOT type checking + compile-time macros. Haxe, I think, had the poor luck of coming about in the same general time as TypeScript which had a mega corporation propelling its hype and adoption.

[1]: https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-core

[2]: https://github.com/MVCoconut/coconut.ui

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• urweb

  6 797 4.7 Standard ML

  The Ur/Web programming language

  

• derw

  5 371 6.3 TypeScript

  An Elm-inspired language that transpiles to TypeScript

Tons of them, but I am most interested in the following for various reasons:

PureScript[1] — been around a long time. Looks a lot like Haskell to me.

Derw[2] — Elm-like, interesting integration with Typescript

Amber[3] — smalltalk for js

Rescript[4] — its been awhile since i last looked at this project (during a catastrophic rebrand) so I'm not sure where this project is at, but it did seem very promising to me at one point.

[1]: https://www.purescript.org/

[2]: https://github.com/eeue56/derw

[3]: https://amber-lang.net/

[4]: https://rescript-lang.org/

• purescript

  52 8,458 6.6 Haskell

  A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript

  

Tons of them, but I am most interested in the following for various reasons:

PureScript[1] — been around a long time. Looks a lot like Haskell to me.

Derw[2] — Elm-like, interesting integration with Typescript

Amber[3] — smalltalk for js

Rescript[4] — its been awhile since i last looked at this project (during a catastrophic rebrand) so I'm not sure where this project is at, but it did seem very promising to me at one point.

[1]: https://www.purescript.org/

[2]: https://github.com/eeue56/derw

[3]: https://amber-lang.net/

[4]: https://rescript-lang.org/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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