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A type inferred, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Create blank files, custom file types, templates, whole batches, and reusable folder setups exactly where you are working on macOS.

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, Elm seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 128 times since March 2021.
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| Website | elm-lang.org | createfilesplus.com |
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| Company | — | Startup from the United States · 1 - 9 employees · 2026 |
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CreateFiles+ adds the file creation workflow macOS should have had all along. Create a new file exactly where you are working, without opening TextEdit, saving-as, using Terminal, or dragging template files around. Use Finder right-click menus where macOS allows them, or fall back to the Finder...
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As answered by people managing Elm and CreateFiles+.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Xcode and Swift
CreateFiles+'s answer:
macOS should have created this feature out of the box but does not exist. Windows users have had this feature for over a decade. I created this to remove that gap for macOS users.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I am not familiar with any competitors doing this today.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Power Users, Developers, Productivity focused users, students, teachers, creators.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Its brand new so that is yet to be determined.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I have struggled with not having this capability in Finder for years and decided I would fix the problem for me and then see if other users would want the same solution.
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


I think the main idea here is the "being able to use Rust for x-platform UIs". If any language is acceptable, yes, you cold use Dart (Flutter), Delphi (Lazarus), C++ (Qt), etc. There are bridges to Rust:... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
With this article I hope to attract more attention to the languages like PureScript, or Unison or LEAN, or Haskell or Elm and its descendants, because they not only bring mathematical beauty in the world (I say it from the position of... - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago
I had two possible topics in mind. One about teaching Clojure and Functional Programming to beginners (because of my course Clojure: Introdução à Programação Funcional; an Introduction to Functional Programming through Clojure, for... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago
Tracking CreateFiles+ since Jun 2026.
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Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming.
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Has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features, while also providing the facilities for low level memory manipulation
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