PureScriptWhat is PureScript?
A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.
PureScript is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
PureScript Pros & Cons
Pros of PureScript
- ✓Purely functional
- ✓Great FFI to JavaScript
- ✓Alternate backends
- ✓The best type system
- ✓Coherent type classes
- ✓Libraries
- ✓More Haskell-ish than Haskell
- ✓Pursuit
Cons of PureScript
- ✗Have Some Bugs
- ✗No JSX/Template
- ✗Not so fancy error reporting
PureScript Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to PureScript?
NuGet
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
RubyGems
It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Bower
Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
