Hacker News Reader

And this is why Scala.js interops seamlessly with JavaScript. [1] Most of the time, you don't even know whether you're calling other Scala.js code or JavaScript libraries, and it's all typed. If you want to interact with JS in a stricter way, you should check it out.

[1] http://www.scala-js.org/doc/interoperability/

View on HN

Scala.js is simply amazing: powerful, performant, acceptable compiled code size, easy interoperation with JS, lots of well-tested libraries, a good community, and excellent IDE tools.

I am very tempted to start learning Elm and Purescript. They both seem very elegant languages, but I keep postponing it until there is an IDE with good code completion, to ease the learning curve.

There's some work towards that in PureScript: https://github.com/kRITZCREEK/psc-ide provides an interface for multiple editors, seems like Atom, Emacs, Vim and VS are available currently.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com