F# vs HAML

Overview

HAML

Stacks601

Followers331

Votes267

GitHub Stars3.8K

Forks580

Stacks779

Followers556

Votes399

GitHub Stars2.2K

Forks316

F# vs HAML: What are the differences?

Developers describe F# as "Strongly-typed, functional-first programming language for writing simple code to solve complex problems". F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language. It empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable and robust code. On the other hand, HAML is detailed as "HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku". Haml is a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the HTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ERB, and ASP. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding HTML into the template, because it is actually an abstract description of the HTML, with some code to generate dynamic content.

F# and HAML belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

"Pattern-matching" is the primary reason why developers consider F# over the competitors, whereas "Clean and simple" was stated as the key factor in picking HAML.

F# and HAML are both open source tools. HAML with 3.44K GitHub stars and 544 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than F# with 2.09K GitHub stars and 341 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, HAML has a broader approval, being mentioned in 113 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to F#, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.

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Advice on HAML, F#

Markus

Feb 3, 2021

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Hi there. I want to expand my coding toolset. So I want to learn a second backend language besides Kotlin. Kotlin is fantastic. I love it in every aspect, and I think I can never return to Java. And also why should I? It is 100% interoperable with java and can co-exist in every project.

So my question here is. Which language do you think will bring me more joy? I think F#; it is more like Kotlin. Then C# (it's more or like 100% java). But, let's say I learn F#. Is it 100% interoperable like Kotlin? can they live side by side? Can I, then, apply to .NET jr jobs after a while, for example, or is C# the holy cow? I would like to learn .Net.

If it is the worst and only C# is acceptable, then which language should I learn? Dart? Golang?

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Detailed Comparison

HAML	F#
Haml is a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the HTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ERB, and ASP. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding HTML into the template, because it is actually an abstract description of the HTML, with some code to generate dynamic content.	F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language. It empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable and robust code.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 3.8K	GitHub Stars 2.2K
GitHub Forks 580	GitHub Forks 316
Stacks 601	Stacks 779
Followers 331	Followers 556
Votes 267	Votes 399
Pros & Cons
Pros 68 Clean and simple 49 No html open/close tags 39 Easier to write than ERB 36 Forces clean and readable code 34 Simpler markup language Cons 3 It's not Pug	Pros 53 Pattern-matching 42 Makes programming fun again 38 Type providers 32 Delightful 30 Frictionless Cons 3 Microsoft tend to ignore F# preferring to hype C# 2 Interop between C# can sometimes be difficult 1 Hype 1 Type Providers can be unstable in larger solutions
Integrations
Rails	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to HAML, F#?

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.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Golang

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

C#

C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers.

Scala

Scala is an acronym for “Scalable Language”. This means that Scala grows with you. You can play with it by typing one-line expressions and observing the results. But you can also rely on it for large mission critical systems, as many companies, including Twitter, LinkedIn, or Intel do. To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. Its syntax is concise and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler can infer them.

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.

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F# vs HAML: What are the differences?

F# and HAML belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

"Pattern-matching" is the primary reason why developers consider F# over the competitors, whereas "Clean and simple" was stated as the key factor in picking HAML.

F# and HAML are both open source tools. HAML with 3.44K GitHub stars and 544 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than F# with 2.09K GitHub stars and 341 GitHub forks.