Re:PureScript
by hawkice on Friday December 09, 2016 @10:55PM
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I like Elm a lot. It's much much simpler than PureScript, lacks some of the advanced features, but as an advanced user of Elm, I've found I don't really mind -- all the important stuff is there (structural types, tagged unions and polymorphism working with a type checker, for instance, is very good, even if you don't have typeclasses).
I've made dozens of web apps with Elm, and I think it's fair to say that, when I started, I wanted the deep toolkit PureScript has. It turns out if I don't get it I spend more time writing code that delivers features. This is probably not true of everyone, but it is true of me.
Edit: also, Elm has a community (hard to manage for smaller userbases, like PureScript), and they have only been kind and eager to help in my experiences.
I've made dozens of web apps with Elm, and I think it's fair to say that, when I started, I wanted the deep toolkit PureScript has. It turns out if I don't get it I spend more time writing code that delivers features. This is probably not true of everyone, but it is true of me.
Edit: also, Elm has a community (hard to manage for smaller userbases, like PureScript), and they have only been kind and eager to help in my experiences.