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What sort of things do you write with it? You don’t use it professionally do you?
by vineyardmike 4y ago
What sort of things do you write with it? You don’t use it professionally do you?
- 59nadir 4y agoI'm writing proof-of-concept applications in it for our company currently. Our core technology is Erlang (and Elixir), so the jump isn't comparatively as ridiculous as a Java shop suddenly writing PureScript on the BEAM. I trust code written in PureScript far more than I do code written in Elixir and there are already at least 2 companies using `purerl` in production with the majority of their code in PureScript. With that said, I've been writing Elixir since 2015 and have worked with Erlang & Elixir since a couple of years after that (+ Haskell), so I'm both much more likely to use niche languages and I'm also well versed in using the BEAM. PureScript with `purerl` actually matches Erlang much better than Elixir does, since Elixir spends half the language and standard library trying to not be Erlang, so I find that it's a better match than Elixir even as a citizen of the BEAM, and the type safety is something I've wanted on the BEAM since I first wrote production BEAM code. All in all I've been blown away by how solid `purerl` is. The runtime is Erlang, the language is excellent; it's what I dreamed about Haskell being but couldn't quite get.