<story><title>PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/purescript/purescript</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>Seeing these types of experiments are always interesting but just like CoffeeScript it requires learning two languages instead of one [so you an debug] which makes it a hard sale. Why not just write clean JavaScript? I know many want to make JavaScript the assembly language of the web but JavaScript is so much more complex than assembly I&amp;#x27;m not sure that&amp;#x27;s necessarily a good goal to have.&lt;p&gt;Granted I would love for more languages to be usable on the web; even if I thought JavaScript was the best language it&amp;#x27;s always good to have competition and alternatives. But I think that has to come through browser support. I wonder how feasible it would be to generate some sort of byte code similar to how Java and others work with the JVM.</text></comment>
<story><title>PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/purescript/purescript</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paf31</author><text>PureScript developer here. Happy to see this here, and happy to answer any questions.</text></comment>