Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PureScript (programming language)

PureScript (programming language)

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Topic has not received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, so it fails GNG. —cnzx 23:52, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The search links are skewed: with just "PureScript" they give much more hits and few of them refer to unrelated topic, if any.

For programming languages, the following is a significant channel of coverage, not NYT nor mainstream news portals (by the time a language reaches them, it's usually old, stale and technologically obsolete): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/purescript

Also, scientific papers about a cutting edge programming language tend to be in preparation or on the level of BSc or MSc theses, as opposed to established programming languages, where there is a lot of misleading hits, because then the language is used as a basis for extensions, experiments, or just as a minor tool, so the papers are not really about such a language.

I propose to wait and see, for otherwise, we risk a deletion/creation loop, with more and more arguments against deletion each time, but with less and less people willing to waste time creating the ephemeral article, even once the topic is very notable at some point. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikon (talk • contribs) 01:36, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the search is skewed. Try searching with "PureScript" + programming (scholar, books). I don't work on PureScript, but I do hear its name often enough. For sources independent of the subject, see /r/purescript links. The first that came up was 'Purescript-web3 presentation by Martin Allen, Senior Blockchain Developer at FOAM' likely based on the ny-purescript meetup. If people are meeting up to talk about the language, isn't it notable enough? For a more academic sounding source, see 'Reactive Programming in the Browser with Scala.js and PureScript'. As far as I can tell, none of these people are directly affiliated with the PureScript project. Another reason one might consider it a relevant programming language is that it's mentioned as a AltJS language in job descriptions like this one. --Eed3si9n (talk) 02:02, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]