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I'm curious why this isn't a backend for the existing PureScript compiler, since the front-end seems to be copy-paste identical?

PureScript has a lenient FFI so you can choose to use 99% pure functions if you like (at your own risk).

Yes it does.

This seems like it could be useful, but I don't seem to be able to create a discussion which is visible to everyone, yet only editable my members of my team, which is my main use c…

You might find our recent blog post interesting: https://medium.com/fuzzy-sharp/migrating-to-postgres-2dc1519... TL;DR: persistent + esqueleto + servant

Category theory matters to programming because, among other things, it teaches us how to abstract over programming languages. What better definition of abstract programs than "thin…

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I work on the PureScript ( http://purescript.org ) compiler, tools, libraries and book in my spare time (along with many other unpaid contributors), because it's the programming la…

Just model this as taking an old, immutable web to a new one. impact :: Web -> Web Persistent data structures will let us reuse the best parts of the old web efficiently.

> Aside from apps at work Now I'm curious :)

Here is foldl implemented using foldr in PureScript, along with an example of using laziness to gain modularity: http://try.purescript.org/?gist=63d81adf9f5257ffa4f576df2658...

We recently added a way to dump out the compiler's intermediate representation as JSON, so it's actually very straightforward to create new backends by transforming that output [1]…

Halogen is not the only option for building web applications with PureScript. There are simpler options like Pux and Thermite, which are possibly much easier to teach. Halogen is o…

You don't need to constrain yourself. AltJS allows users to mix and match different languages for different problems. Use a pure functional language where it makes sense for you, a…

This is from 2014. Here is the 2016 version: https://github.com/paf31/24-days-of-purescript-2016