I vastly prefer Purescript despite it being the road less traveled. Typescript is just a fake-ish type system on top of JavaScript. But Purescript goes MUCH further in the mission of purity and code safety.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Purescript is like a modern Haskell. Completely different programming paradigm, much less accessible to your average JS developer just wanting to tighten up their code without having to learn category theory

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I’m no white beard, I don’t know much or really any deep category theory (which is, by the way, just some fancy names for stuff we do CONSTANTLY as software engineers), and I use it every single day. Suit yourself, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried Scala.js ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have. Edit; I haven’t 🤣 didn’t see the .js at the end of that word so some of the following is probably irrelevant, though I’ll leave it because it took me a while to type it out. Haha

I’d probably be more interested in it if I were being forced by my day job to work in the JVM. I happen to be in a situation where I am my own boss working on projects completely alone and the tech I pick comes from months of wasting time making perfect the enemy of good. I know that raises quite a few red flags but I can’t help the way that they made me. Haha 🥴

From what I’ve gathered from Joseph Gordon Bell at the (IMO best software engineering podcast ever) Co-Recursive podcast, Scala sacrifices some of the purity and safety by its dependence on the the Java cargo cult. Partly, this is also a drawback of Purescript for me (since it’s intended to compile to JavaScript) but Purescript is starting to be able to escape that fate. Also, I’m a HUGE fan of Haskell syntax.

From your perspective, what pros and cons do you see if I were comparing Scala to Purescript?

Ps. The one that is actually really making me take notice lately is OCaml for the browser.