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Jinja2 vs PureScript: What are the differences?

Developers describe Jinja2 as "Full featured template engine for Python". Jinja2 is a full featured template engine for Python. It has full unicode support, an optional integrated sandboxed execution environment, widely used and BSD licensed. On the other hand, PureScript is detailed as "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.

Jinja2 and PureScript can be primarily classified as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.

Jinja2 and PureScript are both open source tools. Jinja2 with 6.3K GitHub stars and 1.22K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than PureScript with 5.86K GitHub stars and 427 GitHub forks.

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Pros of PureScript
  • 6
    Purely functional
  • 4
    Great FFI to JavaScript
  • 2
    The best type system
  • 2
    Alternate backends
  • 1
    Pursuit
  • 1
    More Haskell-ish than Haskell
  • 1
    Coherent type classes
  • 1
    Libraries
Cons of PureScript
  • 1
    No JSX/Template
  • 1
    Have Some Bugs
  • 1
    Not so fancy error reporting

What is PureScript?

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

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What are some alternatives to and PureScript?
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Liquid
It is an open-source template language written in Ruby. It is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts. It is safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
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.
YAML
A human-readable data-serialization language. It is commonly used for configuration files, but could be used in many applications where data is being stored or transmitted.