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Pursuit is Javadocs equivalent for Purescript, and it's one of the best looking API docs sites I've seen in a long time. It features versioning, links to individual functions and even links to repo and specific source code. This screenshot is from

The vast majority of PLs are either self-hosted or implemented in a systems language (one without GC). The only exceptions I can think of are PureScript, Elm (both written in Haskell), Hack (partly uses OCaml) and Clojure (Java). Are there others? Is it a good tradeoff?

Compile-to-web PLs come in three flavours (increasing difficulty of adoption): JS-like: different syntax/semantics, existing JS tooling: Typescript, CS Separate world: builds own toolchain: Elm, Purescript Separate platform: includes own runtime/needs FFI: ScalaJS, Pyjamas