If you know Haskell, then the remaining bits of PureScript will not take very long. It's like moving from C++ to Java, or Ruby to Python. Most of your experience carries over, and you can learn the differences as they arise. You can likely be productive in PureScript tomorrow.

There's a lot of discussion on PureScript development on the FPChat slack, invite link here: https://fpchat-invite.herokuapp.com/

In my experience, PureScript has been much nicer to work with than GHCJS or Elm. PureScript's editor tooling is absolutely fantastic, and the language has "fixed" a number of warts in Haskell. The record system and interop with JavaScript are wonderful, as well.

Matt Parsons

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Dennis Raddle <dennis.raddle@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, but what do you think the learning curve will be on PureScript? How similar to Haskell is it?

I want to balance some factors here. As my initial goal is rapid prototyping and experimentation, I'd like to use a language I already know well, in other words Haskell.

But of course even with a familiar language, I'm going into a quite unfamiliar situation (web programming) and there is a learning curve with that.

It may be that a language other than Haskell, i.e. PureScript, although requiring a learning curve, would be more suited to my app's needs and thus save me grief.

I don't know.
Dennis

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