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Is PureScript nice to use again? Tried it a year or two ago and it relied heavily on Bower and I had a hard time getting anything to work on Windows - lots of B

Is PureScript nice to use again? Tried it a year or two ago and it relied heavily on Bower and I had a hard time getting anything to work on Windows - lots of Bower errors and such. I tried it a few years ago and got it to work, but in that case getting Halogen to compile the most basic app just stuck the compiler into a freeze for minutes, so I gave up. But I am not shitting on PureScript, it looks like a fantastic way to develop JS apps, and I'd love to use it.

jamil7 6y ago
I'm also wondering the same thing, after the whole Elm meltdown I've been looking for something similar to learn on the side.
- tannhaeuser 6y ago
  Elm meltdown?
  - goldenkey 6y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447
  - nsonha 6y ago
    I hate to be that guy but I expected this from the begining. When you make a language that can only does one thing (web programming) it's destined to go into obscurity. All maintream languages are multiple-purposes. Even javascript is, thesedays.
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  I'm not in the market myself at the moment, but I would consider Fable (F#) for that job.
  - quickthrower2 6y ago
    Sorry that was a brain fart nonseq
- worble 6y ago
  I've been recently looking into some of the new WebAssembly based web frameworks, specifically yew for Rust[0], and I'm having a lot of fun with it. You get a lot of the same compiler guarantee's as Elm, with a familiar syntax if you're already used to writing Rust. It's still rough around the edges though. [0]https://github.com/yewstack/yew https://github.com/yewstack/yew
weavie 6y ago
Yes! The build tool to use is Spago (https://github.com/purescript/spago https://github.com/purescript/spago). It uses package sets which ensures all the packages you use are compatible with eachother. It is incredibly simple to use. spago init spago install halogen spago build Halogen is now at v5 which has removed a lot of the complexity and type wierdness that was around in v4. Highly recommend giving it another spin! Can't speak for how well it works on Windows though. Perhaps someone elso out there knows?

jamil7 6y ago

I'm also wondering the same thing, after the whole Elm meltdown I've been looking for something similar to learn on the side.

tannhaeuser 6y ago
Elm meltdown?
- goldenkey 6y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447
- nsonha 6y ago
  I hate to be that guy but I expected this from the begining. When you make a language that can only does one thing (web programming) it's destined to go into obscurity. All maintream languages are multiple-purposes. Even javascript is, thesedays.
quickthrower2 6y ago
I'm not in the market myself at the moment, but I would consider Fable (F#) for that job.
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Sorry that was a brain fart nonseq
worble 6y ago
I've been recently looking into some of the new WebAssembly based web frameworks, specifically yew for Rust[0], and I'm having a lot of fun with it. You get a lot of the same compiler guarantee's as Elm, with a familiar syntax if you're already used to writing Rust. It's still rough around the edges though. [0]https://github.com/yewstack/yew https://github.com/yewstack/yew

weavie 6y ago

Yes! The build tool to use is Spago (https://github.com/purescript/spago https://github.com/purescript/spago). It uses package sets which ensures all the packages you use are compatible with eachother. It is incredibly simple to use. spago init spago install halogen spago build Halogen is now at v5 which has removed a lot of the complexity and type wierdness that was around in v4. Highly recommend giving it another spin! Can't speak for how well it works on Windows though. Perhaps someone elso out there knows?