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  5. Handlebars.js vs PureScript vs TypeScript

Handlebars.js vs PureScript vs TypeScript

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Overview

Handlebars.js
Handlebars.js
Stacks8.3K
Followers3.2K
Votes308
TypeScript
TypeScript
Stacks105.1K
Followers74.2K
Votes503
GitHub Stars106.6K
Forks13.1K
PureScript
PureScript
Stacks88
Followers86
Votes18
GitHub Stars8.8K
Forks569

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Detailed Comparison

Handlebars.js
Handlebars.js
TypeScript
TypeScript
PureScript
PureScript

Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
106.6K
GitHub Stars
8.8K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
13.1K
GitHub Forks
569
Stacks
8.3K
Stacks
105.1K
Stacks
88
Followers
3.2K
Followers
74.2K
Followers
86
Votes
308
Votes
503
Votes
18
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 106
    Simple
  • 76
    Great templating language
  • 50
    Open source
  • 36
    Logicless
  • 20
    Integrates well into any codebase
Pros
  • 173
    More intuitive and type safe javascript
  • 105
    Type safe
  • 80
    JavaScript superset
  • 48
    The best AltJS ever
  • 27
    Best AltJS for BackEnd
Cons
  • 5
    Code may look heavy and confusing
  • 4
    Hype
Pros
  • 6
    Purely functional
  • 4
    Great FFI to JavaScript
  • 2
    The best type system
  • 2
    Alternate backends
  • 1
    Coherent type classes
Cons
  • 1
    No JSX/Template
  • 1
    Not so fancy error reporting
  • 1
    Have Some Bugs
Integrations
Mustache
Mustache
No integrations availableNo integrations available

What are some alternatives to Handlebars.js, TypeScript, PureScript?

JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

PHP

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Ruby

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

Java

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Golang

Golang

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

HTML5

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

C#

C#

C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers.

Meteor

Meteor

A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.

Scala

Scala

Scala is an acronym for “Scalable Language”. This means that Scala grows with you. You can play with it by typing one-line expressions and observing the results. But you can also rely on it for large mission critical systems, as many companies, including Twitter, LinkedIn, or Intel do. To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. Its syntax is concise and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler can infer them.

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