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What is Elm and what are its top alternatives?

Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.
Elm is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Elm is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Elm's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Elm

  • TypeScript
    TypeScript

    TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. ...

  • React
    React

    Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project. ...

  • PureScript
    PureScript

    A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell. ...

  • ReasonML
    ReasonML

    It lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.It is powerful, safe type inference means you rarely have to annotate types, but everything gets checked for you. ...

  • Haskell
    Haskell

    It is a general purpose language that can be used in any domain and use case, it is ideally suited for proprietary business logic and data analysis, fast prototyping and enhancing existing software environments with correct code, performance and scalability. ...

  • Svelte
    Svelte

    If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads. ...

  • Elixir
    Elixir

    Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain. ...

  • JavaScript
    JavaScript

    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles. ...

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TypeScript

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    More intuitive and type safe javascript
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    Type safe
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    JavaScript superset
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    The best AltJS ever
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    Best AltJS for BackEnd
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    Powerful type system, including generics & JS features
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    Compile time errors
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    Nice and seamless hybrid of static and dynamic typing
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    Aligned with ES development for compatibility
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    Angular
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    Structural, rather than nominal, subtyping
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    Starts and ends with JavaScript
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CONS OF TYPESCRIPT
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    Code may look heavy and confusing
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    Hype

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Yshay Yaacobi

Our first experience with .NET core was when we developed our OSS feature management platform - Tweek (https://github.com/soluto/tweek). We wanted to create a solution that is able to run anywhere (super important for OSS), has excellent performance characteristics and can fit in a multi-container architecture. We decided to implement our rule engine processor in F# , our main service was implemented in C# and other components were built using JavaScript / TypeScript and Go.

Visual Studio Code worked really well for us as well, it worked well with all our polyglot services and the .Net core integration had great cross-platform developer experience (to be fair, F# was a bit trickier) - actually, each of our team members used a different OS (Ubuntu, macos, windows). Our production deployment ran for a time on Docker Swarm until we've decided to adopt Kubernetes with almost seamless migration process.

After our positive experience of running .Net core workloads in containers and developing Tweek's .Net services on non-windows machines, C# had gained back some of its popularity (originally lost to Node.js), and other teams have been using it for developing microservices, k8s sidecars (like https://github.com/Soluto/airbag), cli tools, serverless functions and other projects...

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Adebayo Akinlaja
Engineering Manager at Andela · | 30 upvotes · 3.3M views

I picked up an idea to develop and it was no brainer I had to go with React for the frontend. I was faced with challenges when it came to what component framework to use. I had worked extensively with Material-UI but I needed something different that would offer me wider range of well customized components (I became pretty slow at styling). I brought in Evergreen after several sampling and reads online but again, after several prototype development against Evergreen—since I was using TypeScript and I had to import custom Type, it felt exhaustive. After I validated Evergreen with the designs of the idea I was developing, I also noticed I might have to do a lot of styling. I later stumbled on Material Kit, the one specifically made for React . It was promising with beautifully crafted components, most of which fits into the designs pages I had on ground.

A major problem of Material Kit for me is it isn't written in TypeScript and there isn't any plans to support its TypeScript version. I rolled up my sleeve and started converting their components to TypeScript and if you'll ask me, I am still on it.

In summary, I used the Create React App with TypeScript support and I am spending some time converting Material Kit to TypeScript before I start developing against it. All of these components are going to be hosted on Bit.

If you feel I am crazy or I have gotten something wrong, I'll be willing to listen to your opinion. Also, if you want to have a share of whatever TypeScript version of Material Kit I end up coming up with, let me know.

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    Performance
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    Simplicity
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    Composable
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    Data flow
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    Declarative
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    Isn't an mvc framework
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    Reactive updates
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    Explicit app state
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    JSX
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    Learn once, write everywhere
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    Easy to Use
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    Uni-directional data flow
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    Works great with Flux Architecture
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    Great perfomance
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    Javascript
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    Built by Facebook
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    TypeScript support
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    Server Side Rendering
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    Speed
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    Feels like the 90s
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    Excellent Documentation
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    Props
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    Functional
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    Easy as Lego
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    Closer to standard JavaScript and HTML than others
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    Cross-platform
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    Easy to start
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    Hooks
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    Awesome
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    Scalable
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    Super easy
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    Allows creating single page applications
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    Server side views
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    Sdfsdfsdf
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    Start simple
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    Strong Community
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    Fancy third party tools
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    Scales super well
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    Has arrow functions
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    Beautiful and Neat Component Management
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    Just the View of MVC
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    Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive
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    Fast evolving
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    SSR
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    Great migration pathway for older systems
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    Rich ecosystem
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    Simple
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    Has functional components
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    Every decision architecture wise makes sense
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    Very gentle learning curve
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    Split your UI into components with one true state
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    Image upload
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    Permissively-licensed
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    Fragments
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    Sharable
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    Recharts
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    HTML-like
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    React hooks
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    Datatables
CONS OF REACT
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    Requires discipline to keep architecture organized
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    No predefined way to structure your app
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    Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages
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    JSX
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    Not enterprise friendly
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    One-way binding only
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    State consistency with backend neglected
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    Bad Documentation
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    Error boundary is needed
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    Paradigms change too fast

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Johnny Bell

I was building a personal project that I needed to store items in a real time database. I am more comfortable with my Frontend skills than my backend so I didn't want to spend time building out anything in Ruby or Go.

I stumbled on Firebase by #Google, and it was really all I needed. It had realtime data, an area for storing file uploads and best of all for the amount of data I needed it was free!

I built out my application using tools I was familiar with, React for the framework, Redux.js to manage my state across components, and styled-components for the styling.

Now as this was a project I was just working on in my free time for fun I didn't really want to pay for hosting. I did some research and I found Netlify. I had actually seen them at #ReactRally the year before and deployed a Gatsby site to Netlify already.

Netlify was very easy to setup and link to my GitHub account you select a repo and pretty much with very little configuration you have a live site that will deploy every time you push to master.

With the selection of these tools I was able to build out my application, connect it to a realtime database, and deploy to a live environment all with $0 spent.

If you're looking to build out a small app I suggest giving these tools a go as you can get your idea out into the real world for absolutely no cost.

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Zach Holman

Oof. I have truly hated JavaScript for a long time. Like, for over twenty years now. Like, since the Clinton administration. It's always been a nightmare to deal with all of the aspects of that silly language.

But wowza, things have changed. Tooling is just way, way better. I'm primarily web-oriented, and using React and Apollo together the past few years really opened my eyes to building rich apps. And I deeply apologize for using the phrase rich apps; I don't think I've ever said such Enterprisey words before.

But yeah, things are different now. I still love Rails, and still use it for a lot of apps I build. But it's that silly rich apps phrase that's the problem. Users have way more comprehensive expectations than they did even five years ago, and the JS community does a good job at building tools and tech that tackle the problems of making heavy, complicated UI and frontend work.

Obviously there's a lot of things happening here, so just saying "JavaScript isn't terrible" might encompass a huge amount of libraries and frameworks. But if you're like me, yeah, give things another shot- I'm somehow not hating on JavaScript anymore and... gulp... I kinda love it.

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PureScript

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A strongly-typed language that compiles to Javascript
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PROS OF PURESCRIPT
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    Purely functional
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    Great FFI to JavaScript
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    The best type system
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    Alternate backends
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    Pursuit
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    More Haskell-ish than Haskell
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    Coherent type classes
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    Libraries
CONS OF PURESCRIPT
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    No JSX/Template
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    Have Some Bugs
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    Not so fancy error reporting

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ReasonML

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A friendly programming language for JavaScript and OCaml
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PROS OF REASONML
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    Pattern Matching
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    Type System
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    React
CONS OF REASONML
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    Bindings

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Haskell

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PROS OF HASKELL
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    Statically typed
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    Type-safe
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    Open source
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    Great community
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    Built-in concurrency
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    Built-in parallelism
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    Composable
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    Referentially transparent
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    Generics
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    Type inference
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    Intellectual satisfaction
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    If it compiles, it's correct
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    Flexible
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    Monads
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    Great type system
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    Proposition testing with QuickCheck
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    One of the most powerful languages *(see blub paradox)*
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    Purely-functional Programming
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    Highly expressive, type-safe, fast development time
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    Pattern matching and completeness checking
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    Great maintainability of the code
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    Fun
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    Reliable
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    Best in class thinking tool
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    Kind system
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    Better type-safe than sorry
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    Type classes
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    Predictable
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    Orthogonality
CONS OF HASKELL
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    Too much distraction in language extensions
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    Error messages can be very confusing
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    Libraries have poor documentation
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    No good ABI
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    No best practices
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    Poor packaging for apps written in it for Linux distros
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    Sometimes performance is unpredictable
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    Slow compilation
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    Monads are hard to understand

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In early 2015, Uber Engineering migrated its business entities from integer identifiers to UUID identifiers as part of an initiative focused on using multiple active data centers. To do that, Uber engineers had to identify foreign key relationships between every table in the data warehouse—a nontrivial task by any accounting.

Uber’s solution was to observe and analyze incoming SQL queries to extract foreign key relationships, for which it built tool called Queryparser, which it open sourced.)

Queryparser is written in Haskell, a tool that the team wasn’t previously familiar with but has strong support for language parsing. To help each other get up to speed, engineers started a weekly reading group to discuss Haskell books and documentation.

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Why I am using Haskell in my free time?

I have 3 reasons for it. I am looking for:

Fun.

Improve functional programming skill.

Improve problem-solving skill.

Laziness and mathematical abstractions behind Haskell makes it a wonderful language.

It is Pure functional, it helps me to write better Scala code.

Highly expressive language gives elegant ways to solve coding puzzle.

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Svelte

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    Performance
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    Reactivity
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    Components
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    Simplicity
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    Javascript compiler (do that browsers don't have to)
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    Lightweight
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    Near to no learning curve
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    Fast as vanilajs
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    Real Reactivity
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    All in one
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    Compiler based
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    Use existing js libraries
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    SSR
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    Scalable
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    Very easy for beginners
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    Composable
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    No runtime overhead
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    Ease of use
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    Built in store
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    Typescript
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    Start with pure html + css
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    Best Developer Experience
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    Templates
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    Speed
CONS OF SVELTE
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    Event Listener Overload
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    Little to no libraries
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    Complex
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    Learning Curve
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    Hard to learn

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Sarmad Chaudhary
Founder & CEO at Ebiz Ltd. · | 9 upvotes · 1.3M views

Hi there!

I just want to have a simple poll/vote...

If you guys need a UI/Component Library for React, Vue.js, or AngularJS, which type of library would you prefer between:

1 ) A single maintained cross-framework library that is 100% compatible and can be integrated with any popular framework like Vue, React, Angular 2, Svelte, etc.

2) A native framework-specific library developed to work only on target framework like ElementUI for Vue, Ant Design for React.

Your advice would help a lot! Thanks in advance :)

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Herman Menor
Java Software Engineer · | 8 upvotes · 46.1K views

I have an existing personal website (https://hmenorjr.github.io) which is more of a splash/landing page only. I'm thinking of rebuilding it into a portfolio with a blog/article area. My go-to is WordPress now, because I've created a website for a small agency in the Philippines and exported it into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can check it here: https://hmenorjr.github.io/phoutsource.

I need advice if I should do the same. Build it with WordPress (using LocalWP) and export it as HTML, CSS, and JavaSrcript again, or build it manually with either Next.js or Svelte.

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Elixir

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    Concurrency
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    Functional
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    Erlang vm
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    Great documentation
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    Great tooling
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    Immutable data structures
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    Open source
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    Pattern-matching
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    Easy to get started
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    Actor library
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    Functional with a neat syntax
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    Ruby inspired
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    Erlang evolved
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    Homoiconic
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    Beauty of Ruby, Speed of Erlang/C
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    Fault Tolerant
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    Simple
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    High Performance
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    Pipe Operator
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    Good lang
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    Doc as first class citizen
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    Fun to write
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    Stinkin' fast, no memory leaks, easy on the eyes
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    Resilient to failure
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    OTP
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    GenServer takes the guesswork out of background work
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    Idempotence
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    Pattern matching
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    Not Swift
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    Fast, Concurrent with clean error messages
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    Easy to use
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    Error isolation
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    Dynamic Typing
CONS OF ELIXIR
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    Fewer jobs for Elixir experts
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    Smaller userbase than other mainstream languages
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    Elixir's dot notation less readable ("object": 1st arg)
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    Dynamic typing
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    Difficult to understand
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    Not a lot of learning books available

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Kamil Kowalski
Lead Architect at Fresha · | 28 upvotes · 4M views

When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

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Sebastian Gębski

Another major decision was to adopt Elixir and Phoenix Framework - the DX (Developer eXperience) is pretty similar to what we know from RoR, but this tech is running on the top of rock-solid Erlang platform which is powering planet-scale telecom solutions for 20+ years. So we're getting pretty much the best from both worlds: minimum friction & smart conventions that eliminate the excessive boilerplate AND highly concurrent EVM (Erlang's Virtual Machine) that makes all the scalability problems vanish. The transition was very smooth - none of Ruby developers we had decided to leave because of Elixir. What is more, we kept recruiting Ruby developers w/o any requirement regarding Elixir proficiency & we still were able to educate them internally in almost no time. Obviously Elixir comes with some more tools in the stack: Credo , Hex , AppSignal (required to properly monitor BEAM apps).

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    Flexible
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    You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
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    Non-blocking i/o
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    Ubiquitousness
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    Expressive
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    Extended functionality to web pages
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    Relatively easy language
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    Executed on the client side
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    Relatively fast to the end user
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    Pure Javascript
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    Functional programming
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    Async
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    Full-stack
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    Setup is easy
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    Future Language of The Web
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    Its everywhere
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    Because I love functions
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    JavaScript is the New PHP
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    Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
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    Expansive community
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    Everyone use it
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    Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
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    Easy
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    Most Popular Language in the World
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    Powerful
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    Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
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    For the good parts
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    No need to use PHP
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    Easy to hire developers
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    Agile, packages simple to use
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    Love-hate relationship
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    Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
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    Evolution of C
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    It's fun
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    Hard not to use
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    Versitile
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    Its fun and fast
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    Nice
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    Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
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    Supports lambdas and closures
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    It let's me use Babel & Typescript
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    Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
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    1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
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    Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
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    Easy to make something
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    Clojurescript
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    Promise relationship
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    Stockholm Syndrome
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    Function expressions are useful for callbacks
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    Scope manipulation
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    Everywhere
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    Client processing
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    What to add
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    Because it is so simple and lightweight
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    Only Programming language on browser
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    Test
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    Hard to learn
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    Test2
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    Not the best
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    Easy to understand
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    Subskill #4
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    Easy to learn
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    Hard 彤
CONS OF JAVASCRIPT
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    A constant moving target, too much churn
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    Horribly inconsistent
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    Javascript is the New PHP
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    No ability to monitor memory utilitization
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    Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
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    Thinks strange results are better than errors
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    Can be ugly
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    No GitHub
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    Slow
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    HORRIBLE DOCUMENTS, faulty code, repo has bugs

related JavaScript posts

Zach Holman

Oof. I have truly hated JavaScript for a long time. Like, for over twenty years now. Like, since the Clinton administration. It's always been a nightmare to deal with all of the aspects of that silly language.

But wowza, things have changed. Tooling is just way, way better. I'm primarily web-oriented, and using React and Apollo together the past few years really opened my eyes to building rich apps. And I deeply apologize for using the phrase rich apps; I don't think I've ever said such Enterprisey words before.

But yeah, things are different now. I still love Rails, and still use it for a lot of apps I build. But it's that silly rich apps phrase that's the problem. Users have way more comprehensive expectations than they did even five years ago, and the JS community does a good job at building tools and tech that tackle the problems of making heavy, complicated UI and frontend work.

Obviously there's a lot of things happening here, so just saying "JavaScript isn't terrible" might encompass a huge amount of libraries and frameworks. But if you're like me, yeah, give things another shot- I'm somehow not hating on JavaScript anymore and... gulp... I kinda love it.

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 12.5M views

How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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