Talk:PureScript

Proposed improvements:

Add the following sections:

History

• Maybe rename to "History and relation to other languages"
• Mention influence by Roy, which is mentioned on https://github.com/purescript/documentation/blob/2ae4723320c3591ac33f138cd2327c9edfe2d4bf/Related-Projects.md

Roy is probably the most similar language on the list, and was a large influence on the development of PureScript. There are however, key differences in the foreign function interface, the type system and the choice of development language (Haskell vs. Javascript)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.185.74.52 (talk) 19:47, 20 March 2019 (UTC) 

Code examples

• At least a "Hello World"
• Maybe also a JavaScript FFI example, highlightling the ease of integration with existing JS-codebases/frameworks

Implementations

• Mention alternative implementations, in particular purescript-native which targets C++ as a backend instead of EcmaScript.

Applications

• Industry: Despite PureScript being a relatively young language, there are already several companys which rely on PureScript for a significant portion of their codebase. A few of the major ones would be worth mentioning here, underlining the real-world significance and strength of PureScript. Easily verifiable references:
  • Lumi: Several open-source repo maintained on their github
  • Awakesecurity: They list at least one purescript repo on their public github
  • SlamData: Several PureScript repos on their public github

Ecosystem

• documentation on pursuit
• Pulp
• Bower
• psc-package
• Editor integrations (vscode, atom, vim/emacs)

Community

• Maybe mention the discourse, github, slack channels, ...

Future Directions

• Which aspects of the language are stable, which are in the progress of being extended & improved?
• Are there any essential design-principles or philosophies that drive the evolution of the language? E.g. in C++, a central philosophy is "you should not have to pay for what you don't use"... are there any similar philosophies driving the evolution of PureScript?
• are there plans for standardization?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.185.75.42 (talk) 23:42, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Evaluation strategy

The strict evaluation is clearly formulated in the documentation in the context of JS:

• "As the evaluation strategy matches JavaScript"
• "Keeping strict evaluation also means there is no need for a runtime system or overly complicated JavaScript output."

I'm not sure that makes lazy evaluation backends "non-conforming". I did not find this language in PureScript's documentation. Nowhere man (talk) 21:19, 20 February 2023 (UTC)