This is an updated version of the original article. I want to thank @joseanpg for the corrections and the idea regarding TextEncoder. Usually, my articles are mostly too long, filled with too many screenshots and philosophy. But this time I’ll try to remain concise and, hopefully, more precise than usual. I’ll refer to Jake Archibald’s article on Web Streams and his prediction that they’ll become the dominant web technology of the Year 2016 (in combination with Service Workers, of course). The article is filled with lots and lots of nice code examples you can basically copy & paste into your browser (some of […]
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It’s been a while since I wrote my last article and. Actually, I planned to write the second part of my Scala Crash Course but in the mean time I adopted an orphaned (abandoned?) project called purescript-ractive that’s related to my favorite UI-Library, RactiveJS, and is written in a little, amazing language called PureScript. As many of you already know there are so many different languages that compile to JavaScript. There’s even a COBOL transpiler for JS! Therefore I’ll surely not waste your time discussing the (dis)advantages of Transpiling-to-JS vs. Writing-in-JS. Instead, I’ll try to describe the advantages of PureScript by explaining a small […]