PureScript Registry vs Transcrypt
PureScript Registry
registry.purescript.orgTranscrypt
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| Figure | PureScript Registry | Transcrypt |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Code Transpilers | 7.2 (#23) | 8.0 (#9) |
| Integrations | Spago integrates with the registry for package publishing and installation, and published documentation is uploaded to Pursuit. | The examples page includes integrations or demos involving jQuery, React, Fabric.js, D3.js, Plotly.js, and Riot. |
| Purpose | The PureScript Registry stores PureScript packages and metadata and provides an API for package operations. | Transcrypt compiles Python source code into JavaScript for browser applications. |
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PureScript Registry
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Transcrypt
Transcrypt compiles Python source code into JavaScript for browser applications. It converts a substantial subset of Python into JavaScript 6, with optional minification, and supports features including multiple inheritance, async/await, comprehensions, and modules. Developers can call JavaScript functions from Python and use browser DOM functions and JavaScript libraries. The distribution includes optional static type validation and consistency checks, plus multilevel source maps for tracing generated JavaScript back to the original Python. Transcrypt can also compile Python server code for Node.js and use Node libraries with require(). The project recommends installing it as a Python package with pip and documents testing on Windows, Linux, and OSX. Its focus is browser development and JavaScript libraries rather than desktop Python libraries. Because code is precompiled, Python exec and eval are unsupported, although JavaScript eval is supported. C and C++ libraries are not directly supported for browser use without special measures such as compiling them to asm.js. Transcrypt is free and open source under Apache 2.0.