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Pug vs PureScript: What are the differences?
What is Pug? Robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for nodejs. This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.
What is PureScript? A strongly-typed language that compiles to Javascript. A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.
Pug and PureScript can be primarily classified as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.
Pug and PureScript are both open source tools. Pug with 18.4K GitHub stars and 1.9K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than PureScript with 5.86K GitHub stars and 427 GitHub forks.
Pros of Pug
- Elegant html138
- Great with nodejs90
- Open source59
- Very short syntax59
- Structured with indentation54
- Free25
- Really similar to Slim (from Ruby fame)6
- It's not HAML6
- Gulp6
- Clean syntax5
- Readable code5
- Easy setup5
- Difficult For Front End Developers,learn backend5
- Disdain for angled brackets4
Pros of PureScript
- Purely functional6
- Great FFI to JavaScript4
- The best type system2
- Alternate backends2
- Pursuit1
- More Haskell-ish than Haskell1
- Coherent type classes1
- Libraries1
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Cons of Pug
Cons of PureScript
- No JSX/Template1
- Have Some Bugs1
- Not so fancy error reporting1