Transpilers to Watch
September 17, 2013
Transpilers are the new Black (Coffee)
CoffeeScript is fairly ubiquitous technology these days –a transpiler that converts it’s own, much nicer language into Javascript, which can then be run via Node.js or on the Web. But it’s not the only fish in this sea. Here are three similar projects that look very promising.
Forml
A contemporary programming language for the discriminating programmer, intended to approximate the safety of Haskell and the expressiveness of Ruby. Should such an approximation turn out to exist.
NoFlo
NoFlo is a JavaScript implementation of Flow-Based Programming (FBP). Separating the control flow of software from the actual software logic. Helping you organize large applications easier than traditional OOP paradigms, especially when importing and modifying large data sets.
Opal
Opa is a full-stack open source web development framework for JavaScript that lets you write secure and scalable web applications. Opa handles all aspects of web programming: frontend (client code), backend (server code) and database queries are all written in one consistent language and compiled to standards of the web.