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Dust vs PureScript: What are the differences?
What is Dust? Asynchronous templates for the browser and node.js. Dust is a JavaScript templating engine designed to provide a clean separation between presentation and logic without sacrificing ease of use. It is particularly well-suited for asynchronous and streaming applications.
What is PureScript? A strongly-typed language that compiles to Javascript. A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.
Dust and PureScript can be primarily classified as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.
Dust and PureScript are both open source tools. PureScript with 5.86K GitHub stars and 427 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Dust with 1.48K GitHub stars and 136 GitHub forks.
Pros of Dust
Pros of PureScript
- Purely functional6
- Great FFI to JavaScript4
- The best type system2
- Alternate backends2
- Pursuit1
- More Haskell-ish than Haskell1
- Coherent type classes1
- Libraries1
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Cons of Dust
Cons of PureScript
- No JSX/Template1
- Have Some Bugs1
- Not so fancy error reporting1