What is LiveScript?
It has a straightforward mapping to JavaScript and allows you to write expressive code devoid of repetitive boilerplate. While LiveScript adds many features to assist in functional style programming, it also has many improvements for object oriented and imperative programming.
LiveScript is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
LiveScript is an open source tool with 2.3K GitHub stars and 157 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to LiveScript's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses LiveScript?
Companies
17 companies reportedly use LiveScript in their tech stacks, including Teachers Pay Teachers, Realmac Software, and Omnic Core.
Developers
47 developers on StackShare have stated that they use LiveScript.
LiveScript Integrations
LiveScript's Features
- Functional style programming
- Imperative programming
LiveScript Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to LiveScript?
TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
PureScript
A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.
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.
CoffeeScript
It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.
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.
