purescript mit Homebrew, Nix, scoop installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• purs

Projektgeschichte

Phil Freeman created PureScript in 2013 as a small, strongly typed functional language compiling to JavaScript. The language drew on Haskell while developing JavaScript-oriented features and conventions of its own, including row polymorphism, extensible records, typed effects, and a direct foreign-function interface.

The compiler and documentation subsequently became collaborative projects under the PureScript organization. The official documentation repository covers the language, compiler, ecosystem, migration guides, editor tooling, and related projects, while the community-maintained PureScript by Example book provides a practical learning path.

Adoptionsgeschichte

PureScript developed from a compiler into a compact language ecosystem with community-maintained core libraries, searchable package documentation through Pursuit, build and package tooling, editor integrations, and learning resources.

The official website recommends Spago as the build tool and npm for JavaScript dependencies. This pairing lets PureScript projects retain JavaScript interoperability while using package sets, reproducible builds, and language-specific tooling.

Wie es verwendet wird

Developers use the purs compiler, normally through Spago, to build browser applications, Node.js services, command-line programs, and libraries. JavaScript APIs and npm packages are reached through the FFI, while generated package documentation is commonly published to Pursuit.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

PureScript is important to language-package enthusiasts as a durable example of a Haskell-inspired language built specifically around JavaScript output and interoperability. Its ecosystem combines a native compiler, JavaScript FFI, package sets, a registry, Pursuit documentation, and Spago's Cargo-like project workflow.

Its appeal is less about replacing the JavaScript ecosystem than imposing a precise functional type system on projects that still need browser APIs, Node.js, and npm libraries.

Zeitleiste

• 2013: Phil Freeman released the first version of PureScript.
• 2014: The copyright period for PureScript by Example began.
• Undated: Spago became the officially recommended PureScript build tool.

Related projects

• Spago is the recommended PureScript package manager and build tool. Pursuit indexes generated package documentation, and purescript-language-server exposes compiler IDE services to LSP-compatible editors.

Quellen

• https://book.purescript.org/
• https://github.com/purescript/documentation
• https://github.com/purescript/purescript
• https://github.com/purescript/purescript/wiki/Wikipedia-Page-Proposal/c10c2ad87549bc8ee7a252cc23e1f490e64b8b9c
• https://www.purescript.org/