Re:Ask HN: Do you use a language not normally associated wit...
by dreamdu5t on Monday May 09, 2016 @05:07PM
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I'm using PureScript because it is purely functional and has a powerful type system like Haskell, but compiles to JS with easy FFI and I can use it with webpack. I'm writing both a backend API server and frontend app with it. It's been amazingly productive and a godsend for writing type-safe JS.
On the front-end, it has purescript-pux, which is pretty much a port of the Elm architecture. The language/community is really shaping up.
On the front-end, it has purescript-pux, which is pretty much a port of the Elm architecture. The language/community is really shaping up.