AFAICT this language is less featureful than coffee-script, its only
advantage being the syntax is slightly more haskellish.
Of course, it does provides a technique for inserting haskell values into
javascript, and having javascript in haskell code. I think it would be
better to add these features to the more widely used coffee script using
that part of JMacro and/or Yesod's similar template tools.
The other option of course is to compile haskell into javascript using ghc
[1] or llvm [2], but these solutions are still immature. The great thing
about coffee-script is that the language was designed as a super-set and
almost everything compiles down to very readable (easy to debug) javascript,
something that is harder to do when compiling an entirely different
language.
[1] https://github.com/sviperll/ghcjs
[2] code.google.com/p/emscripten/wiki/FAQ
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Jeff Polakow
Hello,
Regarding coffee-script: I think having a Haskell equivalent would be an awesome tool. This could also be another great moment for the Haskell web community to work together.
Please have a look at jmacro.
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Jmacro http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jmacro
-Jeff
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